Lewis Eade

Skipper with Steam Trawler Incentive (Lowestoft), Lewis died on 28th of May 1915, at the age of 40.

Lewis was born at Blythburgh in 1874, a son of Samuel and Hannah Eade. In 1881 his family lived at Blythburgh. 

On 28 March 1894 Lewis married Selina Elizabeth Fisher at Saint Peter's Church, Kirkley. At that time they were both living at Kirkley and Lewis was a fisherman. In 1901 they lived at 84 Pakefield Street, Kirkley, and Lewis was the Mate on the trawler 'Florabell'. In 1911, while Lewis was Skipper of the trawler 'Kestrel' (LT 442), Selina lodged at New Street, Padstow, Cornwall. 

By 1915 Lewis, and family, were living at Morton Road, Lowestoft. Subsequently Selina remarried and lived at 24 Morton Road, Lowestoft. 

Lewis' son John served with him, as a Deck Hand, on the Incentive and was also killed when the vessel was sunk. 

What exactly happened to the Incentive is unclear, but it is assumed that it sank after striking a mine laid in the Dogger Bank area.