William Robert Fisk

An Engineer with Fishing Vessel Leach’s Romance (Shoreham), William died on 29th of July 1940 aged 30. 

William was born at Lowestoft on 14 July 1910, a son of Charles and Ada Fisk. He was baptised at Saint Margaret’s Church on 22 September 1910 and his family lived at 22 Union Road. By 1939 his parents were living at 18 Beckham Road. 

In 1930 William married Hannah Dorothy Margaret Mary Martin: this was registered in the Mutford district. In 1939 they lived at 33 Meeching Road, Newhaven. 

In July 1940 William was the Engineer on the fishing trawler Leach’s Romance. On 29 July the trawler was about ten miles south of Brighton and struck a mine. Four crew, including William, were lost, officially being noted as ‘missing presumed drowned.’