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commands that would extend to his retirement, in December 1922. Pictured below are
Captain Edward Carter Strike and members of his family:

Five years after retirement Edward Carter Strike was driving his Armstrong Siddley car
up Morrab Road in Penzance when he had the misfortune to mount the pavement and
colliding with a lamp standard. The matter was reported by The Cornishman newspaper
on December 14, 1927, referring to ‘Mr Edward Carter Strike of Parc-an-Cairn,
Porthleven’. The newspaper went on to report that the vehicle received extensive
damage to the bonnet and front axle, ‘…and was later taken to the Trelawney Garage’.

Another brother, Thomas, was in common with his brother Edward employed by the
Hain Line of St. Ives. A first command – in April 1913 - was in the 4163 ton Hain
freighter, the ‘Treverbyn’. In January 1914 Thomas was appointed master of the
3071 ton ‘Treloske’. Towards the end of August 1917, on passage from Cardiff to
Spezia with coal, the ship was twice attacked by submarines and each time Thomas
Strike managed to shake them off. However, on August 29, 1917 the ‘Treloske’
encountered the U-boat, U-93 at night, 145 miles off Cape Finisterre . For two hours
the ‘Treloske’ kept the submarine at bay with gunfire on a zig-zagging course, only
succumbing when eventually U-93 managed to get in position to fire a torpedo which
sent the ship to the bottom. For this act of bravery and valour, Thomas Strike was
awarded the Distinguished Service Cross

‘In recognition of zeal and devotion to duty in carrying on the trade of the
country during the war’.

The Western Mail on January 22, 1918 carried the following report:

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