Family :

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Naval Campaign is defined as to include all sea operations where attrition rates are in ones and twos and which do not fall within specific naval battles such as Jutland, Coronel, Falklands etc. This includes Merchant Navy losses.

Detail :

SS Hesperides, built by Bartram & Sons, Sunderland in 1899 and owned at the time of her loss by British & South American Steam Nav. Co. Ltd. (R. P. Houston & Co.), Liverpool, was a British steamer of 3393 tons. On April 25th, 1917, Hesperides, on a voyage from Buenos Aires to Liverpool with general cargo, was sunk by the German submarine U-69 (Ernst Wilhelms), 130 miles NW1/2W from Fastnet. 1 person was lost.

KEADY, LUMLEY FLETCHER (37), Chief Engineer, SS Hesperides, Mercantile Marine, †25/04/1917, Husband of Isabella Keady, of 34, Ancaster Rd., Liverpool. Born at West Hartlepool, Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial

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Probate: KEADY Lumley Fletcher of 34 Ancaster-road Aigburth Liverpool chief marine engineer died 25 April 1917 at sea Administration Liverpool 4 July to Isabella Keady widow. Effects £605 3s 4d.

Masonic :

"Died about 1917."

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley