Send a Message via the The Wartime Memories Project Website
Send a Message via The Wartime Memories Project Website
Your message will be forwarded to the last contact details we have, your email address will not be passed on, they can reply to you via this messaging system.
Please scroll down to send a message.
630
Ldg Seaman. R. W. Hook
Royal Navy HMS Patrol
(d.16th Dec 1914)
Ldg Seaman Hook was killed when an 11inch round struck HMS Patrol was she was leaving Victoria Dock in Hartlepool on the morning of the 16th of December 1914 during the Bombardment of the Hartlepools. HMS Patrol ran aground just outside the mouth of the harbour having been hit again by a 8.2 inch shell from the German ship Bulcher.