Frederick James Dowsing

A Mate with Trawler Rupee (Brixham), Frederick died on 3rd of October 1917.

Frederick was born at Lowestoft in 1873, a son of Thomas Henry and Mary Ann Dowsing. In 1881 his family lived at Wright's Cottages, 1, Beccles Road, Lowestoft. From a young age Frederick went to sea and was a trawlerman. By 1894 his family was living at 3 Ipswich Road, Lowestoft.

Frederick married Mary Anna Hood at Saint Margaret's Church, Lowestoft, on 26 December 1894. Mary lived at 73 Queens Road. By 1901 they were living at 78 Queens Road, and by 1911 at 64 Queens Road, and later their home was at 81 Oxford Road, Lowestoft.

The 1911 Census shows Frederick at Padstow and he was the Mate on the trawler Hyacinth (LT 1015).

Frederick was the Mate on the trawler Rupee. On 3 October 1917 the Rupee was 12 miles north of Lundy when captured by a German submarine which proceeded to sink the trawler, by gunfire. Four of the crew, including Frederick, were killed. 

Frederick's brother Thomas served with the Royal Naval Reserve and died in 1916.