Copy Photograph: Fragments of a letter found on the edge of the Libyan desert

COPY PHOTOGRAPH: Fragments of a letter found on the edge of the Libyan desert that led to the admiralty tracing the wherabouts of the H. M. S. Tara survivers, written by stoker R. Williams of Holyhead including an insert image of him. The letter is addressed to Mrs Ted Rolands 365 Carnarvon Road, Bangor from your brother.

The S.S. Hibernia was built by Denny Brothers of Dumbarton on behalf of the London & North Western Railway Company. Launched on the 22nd of December 1899, she was put into service on the 12th January 1900 as an express passenger steamer on the Irish Sea passage between Holyhead and North Wall Dublin. Following the outbreak of war in 1914, the renamed ship was requisitioned by the Admiralty, and converted into an armed boarding ship. The Tara was transferred to the Eastern Mediterranean in 1915. On 5th November 1915, a German submarine torpedoed the ship at Solum Bay, Egypt. The crew, the majority of whom came from Anglesey, including Dutton, were captured by Turkish forces and held prisoner by a group of Senussi soldiers for 135 days until the British Western Frontier Force rescued them at Bir el Hakim (Libya).

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Cyflwr da /Good condition

Compiled by Amanda Sweet for Archifau Ynys Môn / Anglesey Archives

Mae'r holl gofnodiadau sy'n cydymffurfio â pholisi casglu Swyddfa Gofnodi Cyngor Sir Ynys Môn wedi eu cadw /All records which meet the collection policy of the Anglesey Archives have been retained.

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