Able Seaman George Beattie (Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve) was a casualty of WW1 having died age 17 on board HMS Viknor on 13 January 1915. The armed merchant cruiser HMS Viknor disappeared off Tory ...
Jack reported aboard HMS Viknor on December 12 1914 .His new vessel ,like the Edgar, was another makeshift warship . The 5,300-ton Viknor was the flag ship of Viking Cruising Company,refitted and ...
World War One At Home - Bonamargy Friary, Co Antrim: HMS Viknor Lost at Sea - BBC Sounds From: World War One At Home Bonamargy Friary, Co Antrim: HMS Viknor Lost at SeaBonamargy Friary, Co Antrim: HMS ...
A ceremony commemorating the 100 th anniversary of the loss of three Royal Navy ships and fifty-seven Royal Naval Reservists from Newfoundland during the First World War was held today at Bowring Park ...
The liners were sunk by torpedoes and mines and now lie on the seabed, just off the Irish coast. Among the wrecks are merchant vessels, submarines and ocean liners, with HMS Audacious being the oldest ...
The grief was felt by hundreds of families who lost people with the Viknor. Nearly a century later one of the descendants of the lost of the Viknor wrote: “Then came the Great War, and my father, ...