29 May 1915 - Condor
The Scarborough trawler the Condor was fishing off Cloughton when four other trawlers heard a loud explosion. No trace of the vessel was found until the body of the skipper was washed ashore at Speeton in Filey Bay. The inquest into his death heard that he had not been injured by the explosion and, judging by discolouration of his finger nails, he had been clinging to a pice of wreckage. The skipper was said to have been a powerful swimmer, so it was thought that he had been in the water for some time before he drowned. He left a wife and son. The inquest concluded that it was probable that a mine had become caught within the nets of the trawler and it had then exploded upon coming into contact with the vessel, thus causing its total loss.
Crew lost: Condor, Scarborough
Bob Heritage, captain,
Robert Appleby, cook, aged 16, Scarborough
John Barker, second hand, aged 27, Scarborough
Robert Cammish, deck hand aged 20, Scarborough
John Carsey, deck hand, aged 19, Scarborough
Thomas Donkin, trimmer, aged 17, Scarborough
James Hunter, second engineer, aged 25, Hull
Frederick Mills, chief engineer, aged 38, Scarborough
Arthur Wright, third hand, aged 24, Scarborough
