PO/10910 Private RMLI
E. Palmer
H.M.S. "Viknor"
13th. January 1915 Age 31
The mists have rolled away
RMLI = Royal Marine Light Infantry
Son of Percival and Agnes Palmer
Husband of Martha Ellen Kate Palmer, of 10 Park Road, Alverston, Gosport, Hampshire.
H.M.S. Viknor began life as the Atrato, built in 1888 by Robert Napier for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. A passenger liner between the British Isles and the West Indies, its name was changed in 1912 to the Viking and, two years later, was converted into an armed merchant cruiser (with another change of name) to patrol the waters between Scotland and Iceland. The following January, although it had been in contact with the shore, it sank off Tory Island, near County Donegal, without sending a distress signal, with the loss of all hands (nearly three hundred). It has never been established whether this was because of a storm which was taking place at the time, or whether it was caused by one of several German mines which were known to be in the vicinity.
E. Palmer
H.M.S. "Viknor"
13th. January 1915 Age 31
The mists have rolled away
RMLI = Royal Marine Light Infantry
Son of Percival and Agnes Palmer
Husband of Martha Ellen Kate Palmer, of 10 Park Road, Alverston, Gosport, Hampshire.
H.M.S. Viknor began life as the Atrato, built in 1888 by Robert Napier for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. A passenger liner between the British Isles and the West Indies, its name was changed in 1912 to the Viking and, two years later, was converted into an armed merchant cruiser (with another change of name) to patrol the waters between Scotland and Iceland. The following January, although it had been in contact with the shore, it sank off Tory Island, near County Donegal, without sending a distress signal, with the loss of all hands (nearly three hundred). It has never been established whether this was because of a storm which was taking place at the time, or whether it was caused by one of several German mines which were known to be in the vicinity.
PO/10910 Private RMLI
E. Palmer
H.M.S. "Viknor"
13th. January 1915 Age 31
The mists have rolled away
RMLI = Royal Marine Light Infantry
Son of Percival and Agnes Palmer
Husband of Martha Ellen Kate Palmer, of 10 Park Road, Alverston, Gosport, Hampshire.
H.M.S. Viknor began life as the Atrato, built in 1888 by Robert Napier for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. A passenger liner between the British Isles and the West Indies, its name was changed in 1912 to the Viking and, two years later, was converted into an armed merchant cruiser (with another change of name) to patrol the waters between Scotland and Iceland. The following January, although it had been in contact with the shore, it sank off Tory Island, near County Donegal, without sending a distress signal, with the loss of all hands (nearly three hundred). It has never been established whether this was because of a storm which was taking place at the time, or whether it was caused by one of several German mines which were known to be in the vicinity.
E. Palmer
H.M.S. "Viknor"
13th. January 1915 Age 31
The mists have rolled away
RMLI = Royal Marine Light Infantry
Son of Percival and Agnes Palmer
Husband of Martha Ellen Kate Palmer, of 10 Park Road, Alverston, Gosport, Hampshire.
H.M.S. Viknor began life as the Atrato, built in 1888 by Robert Napier for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. A passenger liner between the British Isles and the West Indies, its name was changed in 1912 to the Viking and, two years later, was converted into an armed merchant cruiser (with another change of name) to patrol the waters between Scotland and Iceland. The following January, although it had been in contact with the shore, it sank off Tory Island, near County Donegal, without sending a distress signal, with the loss of all hands (nearly three hundred). It has never been established whether this was because of a storm which was taking place at the time, or whether it was caused by one of several German mines which were known to be in the vicinity.
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