More about Henry James Crabb

For reasons unknown this man is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour.

Henry has no known grave but is remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial. He was serving aboard S.S. Ladoga, built by S. P. Austin & Son, Ltd., Sunderland in 1914 and owned at the time of her loss by W. Thomson & Co., Leith, was a British steamer of 1917 tons.

On April 16th, 1918, Ladoga, on a voyage from Bilbao to Maryport with a cargo of ore, was sunk by the German submarine UB-73 (Karl Neureuther), 15 miles southeast from the South Arklow lightvessel. 29 persons were lost

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Henry J Crabb was the son of Mr Matthew Thomas Crabb and Mrs Margaret Elizabeth Crabb, nee Robinard of St Clair Hill, St Sampsons, Guernsey and lived at 208 Seagate, Dundee. The SS Ladoga, a cargo ship registered in Leith, was torpedoed and sunk in the Irish Sea, 15 nautical miles south east of the South Arklow Lightship, by the German submarine UB-73 with the loss of twenty nine of her crew. Henry Crabb’s name is listed on the Tower Hill Memorial in London.