Ivan Herbert Mummery

A Third Mate with S.S. Baku Standard (Swansea), Ivan died on 11th of February 1918 at the age of 19. 

Ivan was born at Lowestoft on 7 July 1898 a son of John Herbert and Mahala Florence Mummery. In 1901 his family lived at 6 Battery Green Road. Ivan attended Morton Road School before becoming a pupil at Lowestoft School of Science on 14 September 1910. By 1910 his family were living at 25 Kirkley Park Road. Ivan, and all of his brothers and sisters, was baptised at Saint Peter’s Church, Kirkley, on 11 November 1911.

By 1915 Oivan was a Mercantile Marine apprentice working on the cargo ship S.S. Coniston. By 1918 Ivan was the Third Mate with the tanker S.S. Baku Standard. During the First World War the Baku Standard was requisitioned by the Admiralty for use as an oiler for the Royal Navy. 

On 11 February 1918 the Baku Standard was sailing down the east coast of Scotland, near Kinnaird Head, with a cargo of crude oil, when it was torpedoed by German submarine UC-58. All twenty-four men on board the ship, including Ivan, were killed.