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Cptr. Hugh Shaw
Mercantile Marine S.S. "Marina" (Glasgow)
(d.4th November 1916)
Carpenter Shaw was born in Born at Portpatrick. He was 54 when he was drowned and is buried in the North-East part of the Skull (or Schull) Graveyard, Skull, Co. Cork, Ireland.
On the 28th October 1916 when 30 miles W from Fastnet she was torpedoed without warning and sunk by German submarine U-55. 18 lives lost. On route from Glasgow to Baltimore.