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HMS Viknor
HMS Viknor was formerly RMS Atrato, built for the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. She was later renamed SS Viking when sold to Viking Cruising Company and then Viknor by the Admiralty.
She was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to an armed merchant ship and was attached to the 10th Cruiser Squadron blockading the seas between the North of Scotland and Iceland. She was crewed mainly by Royal Naval Reservists with a ships complement of 22 Officers and 273 Ratings.
It was officially recorded that HMS Viknor has been destroyed by an enemy mine, in January 1915, somewhere off Tory Island and that no one had survived of the almost three hundred onboard. Some of the bodies of the crew washed up on Irish and Scottish soil over the course of several days. John Doran
13th January 1915 Bad Weather
13th Jan 1915 Ship Sunk
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Those known to have served in HMS Viknor during the Great War 1914-1918. - Adam James. Fireman (d.13th Jan 1915)
- Adam James. Fireman (d.13 Jan 1915)
- Adams Alfred. Able Seaman (d.13 Jan 1915)
- Ahearne Michael James. Seaman (d.13 Jan 1915)
- Akehurst Edward James. Petty Officer 1st Class (d.13 Jan 1915)
- Alderson . Fireman (d.13 Jan 1915)
- Andrew John. Ships Cook (d.13 Jan 1915)
- Arkle Leslie Charlton. Writer 2nd (d.13th Jan1915)
- Arkle Leslie C.. Writer 2nd (d.13 Jan 1915)
- Armour William Thomas. Able Seaman (d.13 Jan 1915)
- Arthur Walter Davison. Blacksmith (d.13 Jan 1915)
- Burn Thomas. Cooper (d.13th Jan 1915)
- Hartley Arthur. Carp. (d.13th Jan 1915)
- Mackay Donald Campbell. Carpenter. (d.13th Jan 1915)
- Pattison William. Able.Sea. (d.13th Jan 1915)
- Richardson John. Able.Sea. (d.13th Jan 1915)
- Riley James Hodgen. Able.Sea. (d.13th Jan 1915)
- Sayers John William. Fireman. (d.13th Jan 1915)
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