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Age-38

Borough High Street

HMS Stephen Furness started life as a passenger liner of 1,700 tons but was requisitioned by the Royal Navy during the war and used first of all as a squadron supply ship and then as an armed boarding cruiser. On 13th December, 1917 she was on her way from Lerwick in the Shetlands to Liverpool for repairs when she was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-64 of the west coast of the Isle of Man. Struck on the starboard side between the bridge and the funnel, she started sinking straight away and before the life boats could be lowered, she suddenly went down. 101 lives were lost, including that of Sidney Stevens.