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Steward FRANK HANSON

Merchant Navy.

Died on the 4th July 1917

Son of Sarah Elizabeth Hanson and the late John W Hanson of 11 Vaughan St, North Skelton, N Yorkshire.
Husband of Emily Hanson of Darlington Tce, Staithes, North Yorkshire.

Merchant Navy Memorial, Tower Hill, London.

The 1901 census shows him living at 11 Vaughan St, North Skelton.
His parents are John, age, 52, [born in Ruswarp] and Sarah, 54, [born Lealholm].

Francis Hanson served with the Mercantile Marine as a steward aboard the S S Goathland (Whitby).
The ship was sailing from St Nazaire to the Gulf on the 4th July 1917, when it was sunk by a German U-boat 30 miles South West of St Nazaire.

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