MEDAL: WW1 Mercantile Marine S.S.ROYAL EDWARD UBOAT casualty 1915 ( James Long)
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Offered for sale is a single original FULL SIZE Mercantile Marine medal for WW1 service. The medal is correctly named to JAMES LONG. James Long was a trimmer in the Mercantile Marine and lost his life (Age 51) on board the S.S.Royal Edward (Troop Transport) when the ship was torpedoed by UB14 on 13th August 1915. He is remembered on the Tower Hill memorial. Sold with a black and white photograph (new) of the ship and printouts from the CWGC. Some details of the sinking are shown below: On the 13th August 1915, the troop transport “Royal Edward” was steaming towards Mudros, carrying men and supplies for the Gallipoli campaign, when she was torpedoed by a German Submarine, the U-14 and became the first troopship to be sunk in the First World War.Originally named the “Cairo”, the 11,117 ton vessel was built in 1890, at Govan, Scotland for the Egyptian Mail Steamship Co. In 1910 she was purchased, along with her sister ship, the “Heliopolis”, by Canadian Northern Steamships Ltd and they were renamed “Royal Edward” and “Royal George” respectively. The Company employed her on the Avonmouth – Quebec – Montreal route in the summer and Halifax in the winter. On the 8th April 1912 she encountered and reported an ice field in the vicinity of the area in which the RMS “Titanic” sank four days later.With the start of the War in 1914, both ships
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