Mercantile Marine Casualty Pair S.S. Ptarmigan
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Fireman James Samual Friederich Collins, of S.S. Ptarmigan (London)
Killed in action during an enemy submarine attack, on the 15th April 1915, aged 44.
Commemorated on the Mercantile Marine Memorial, Tower Hill, London, Panel 15.
The S.S. Ptarmigan, a 1000 ton steamer from London was sunk by a German submarine on the 15th April 1915; the position given was 6 miles west by
north from the North Hinder Light Vessel in the North Sea.
This incident was one of the very first submarine attacks to cause fatalities without prior warning to mercantile crews.
Sold with a quantity of original research, including a photograph of the memorial panel.
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