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• NOTE: 13 Dec 1916, At Sea - enemy action; STRIKE, Thomas Coalls. Boatswain (Bosun). Mercantile Marine. SS Coath (Penzance) formerly SS Skerryvose (Glasgow). Lost at sea through enemy action on Wednesday 13th December 1916 age 58. Born Porthleven. Son of James and C. Strike; husband of Mary Jane Strike (née Marrack) of 49 Daniel Place, Penzance. Listed on Tower Hill Memorial, St Mary’s Church War Memorial and in Penzance Book of Remembrance. The SS Coath was originally presumed sunk by a mine in the English Channel on 13th December 1916, with the loss of 16 crew, but now believed to have been torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-38 off Beachy Head, East Sussex enroute Eastbourne to Le Havre, France with a cargo of arms and ammunition. In 1904 she had collided with and sank the RN submarine A9 off Plymouth, Devon but with no casualties on either vessel

Thomas married Mary Jane MARRACK 1899, Penzance, Cornwall. [Group Sheet]