Albert Ernest Fisher

A Pilot with Trinity House, Albert died on 26th of September 1915 at the age of 39.

Albert was born at Lowestoft in 1876, a son of David and Maria Fisher. In 1881 his family lived at 3 Prairie, Lowestoft. By 1891 they were living at 75 London Road, Lowestoft, and this was still their home in 1901. 

In 1897 Albert, and his father David, worked on the Lowestoft collier Mary Stowe and had to be rescued during a severe gale.   

In 1904 Albert married Beatrice Mary Studd: this as registered in the Norwich district, but Beatrice came from Kessingland. In 1911 their home was at Jesmond Dene Cottages, Fronks Road, Dovercourt, Essex. 

In 1911 Albert was working on the Princess of London Light Vessel, off Dover. 

During the First World War Albert was a Pilot with Trinity House and was part of the North Channel area (North Channel Pilot). 

On 26 September 1915 the Trinity House pilot cutter Vigilant was cruising at the Sunk station when it struck a mine and was blown up. The cutter was conveying eleven Pilots and eight of them, including Albert, were killed, and three others injured. Among the cutter’s crew, of seven, six were killed and one injured. See Trinity House news: Flash-22-winter-2014.pdf