*1st MARRIAGE-'Scotlands People' 22 Dec 1902 Perthshire Marriage record-[Parish of Errol)-

Names: DAKERS, FREDERICK CHARLES---and--- JACKSON, JESSIE MAUD

Year: 1902

Ref: 351/ 8----RD Name: Errol

[Witnesses: Vernon John Jackson; Edward John William Dakers)

*From New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924:-

Name: Frederick Charles Dakers

Last Place of Residence: Porthshire, Scotland

Event Date: 31 Jul 1908

Age: 36y

Nationality: Scottish

Departure Port: Liverpool----Arrival Port: New York

Marital Status: M

Ship Name: 'Lusitania'

Information on the passenger list: occupation-Capt.; his wife (not named) was a resident of Errol, Perthshire; New York was his destination.

*2nd MARRIAGE-1916 September Quarter marriage (Liverpool)-

Names: Dakers, Frederick C. -AND- Young, Elizabeth

District: W. Derby (Volume & Page: 8b & 394)

*DEATH-1918 June Quarter death registration-

Name: DAKERS, Frederick C.----Age: 46

District: Penzance (Volume & Page: 5c & 267)

S.S 'Tagona', a defensively armed Canadian Merchant Steamer of 2,004 tons built in 1908 by A. McMillan & Son in Dumbarton, Yard No 421 for C.H.F. Plummer, Glasgow (Canadian Lake Transportation Company), was laid down as the 'WABANA', but was launched as the 'TAGONA'.

In 1912 she was purchased by the Canadian Lake Transportation Company of Toronto; and in 1913 she was acquired by the Canadian Interlake Line of Toronto; then in 1914 the Canada Steamship Lines took ownership.

On 16 May 1918 S.S 'Tagona' was torpedoed by German submarine U-55 when she was 5 miles WSW of Trevose Head, Cornwall; she was on passage from Bilbao for Glasgow with a cargo of iron ore. The master, F.C. Dakers, and seven of the crew were lost.

Recent research has shown that Master F. C. Dakers was laid to rest in this Welsh Cemetery, so it is assumed that his remains had been recovered; a headstone to mark his grave is being produced by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Military Service:-

Rank: Master

Force: Merchant Navy

Unit: Canadian Merchant Navy

Division: S.S. (CVWM does not include the ship's name, but it is the S.S. 'Tagona')

Son of David Dakers (Ret'd Ship Captain) and Betsy Jane (née Jolly) Dakers; husband of first wife, the late Jessie Maude (née Jackson) Dakers; husband of second wife Elizabeth (née Young) Dakers.

Master F. C. Dakers is commemorated on Page 22 of Canada's Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.

He is also commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

And he is remembered with honour at the Halifax Memorial in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; it was thought that Master Dakers was lost at sea, so his name had initially been included on the Halifax Memorial Monument.