First Name: | Ernest Henry | Last Name: | RING | |
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Date of Death: | 02/05/1917 | Lived/Born In: | Wapping | |
Rank: | Able Seaman | Unit: | HMS Derwent | |
Memorial Site: | Chatham Naval Memorial | |||
Current Information:Age-19 9, Jubilee Buildings, High Street, Wapping
HMS Derwent was a Royal Naval destroyer and part of the First Destroyer Flotilla stationed at Portsmouth. She was equipped with depth charges for use in anti-submarine patrols, escorting merchant ships and defending the Dover Barrage. On 2nd May, 1917 she hit a mine laid by the German submarine, UC-26 when off the coast near Le Havre in France and sank with the loss of 58 lives. One of these was Ernest Ring. |
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