Divers Locate WW1 Destroyer

A team of technical divers has found the wreck of HMS Nessus sunk in 1918 off Orkney in Scotland.

http://www.divernet.com/home_diving_news/155701/divers_locate_ww1_destroyer.html

Officers and Men Killed in Action or Died of Wounds Jutland Bank 31st May - 1st June 1916

HMS Nessus

Surgeon - Probationer John Hislop RNVR
Midshipman William Pemberton Hesketh
Budge, Henry Percy, Sto 1.
Devlin, Henry, Sto. 1.
Donovan, Daniel Sto. P.O.
Dunne, John Joseph, Sto. P.O.
Poyner, James Ernest, Sig.

 

Not an easy destroyer to get decent pictures of Annie!

 

Only 20 years old ....... !

In Memory of
Surgeon Probationer JOHN HISLOP

H.M.S. "Nessus.", Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
who died age 20
on 31 May 1916
Son of Mary Shaw Hislop, of 211, Main St., Wishaw, Lanarkshire, and the late Peter Hislop.

Remembered with honour
PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

 

And 19 !

In Memory of
Midshipman WILLIAM PEMBERTON HESKETH

H.M.S. "Nessus.", Royal Naval Reserve
who died age 19
on 31 May 1916
Son of the late William Brenchley Hesketh.

Remembered with honour
PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

 

A man with a family .....

In Memory of
Stoker 1st Class HENRY PERCY BUDGE

279671, H.M.S. "Nessus.", Royal Navy
who died age 41
on 01 June 1916
Husband of Alice Louisa Budge, of 3, Morden Villas, Hither Green Lane, Lewisham, London.

Remembered with honour
CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

 

It doesn't matter how old ... it's still a tragedy !

In Memory of
Stoker 1st Class HENRY DEVLIN

289932, H.M.S. "Nessus.", Royal Navy
who died
on 01 June 1916

Remembered with honour
PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

 

RIP Daniel !


In Memory of
Petty Officer Stoker DANIEL DONOVAN

311259, H.M.S. "Nessus.", Royal Navy
who died age 26
on 01 June 1916
Son of Jeremiah and Margaret Donovan, of Union Hall, Co. Cork.

Remembered with honour
PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

 

I can't find CWGC ( or Geoff's engine for these two casualties .... )

Dunne, John Joseph, Sto. P.O.
Poyner, James Ernest, Sig.

 

Poyner, James Ernest Sig.

Though I did find his brother William ...

Killed in Action 2 May 1915
Place of death or wounding
Gallipoli, Turkey
Place of burial
No known grave
Commemoration details
The Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 34), Gallipoli, Turkey

http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=244947

and this on find a grave

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=&GRid=13302483&

 

I found him ....

In Memory of
Signaller JAMES ERNEST POYNER

J/17553, H.M.S. "Nessus.", Royal Navy
who died age 19
on 01 June 1916
Son of Mary Poyner, of 57, Park Villas, Sutton Rd., Kidderminster.

Remembered with honour
PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL