My Grandfather's Seafaring Adventures

HMS Mantua when it was a P&O Passenger and Mail Ship

Patrick Toner was a glazier from Glasgow. However during the first world war, he was in the Royal Navy, stoking on an armed cargo ship called the HMS Mantua. The evidence for that was in his marriage certificate in which he gives the ship as his address.
HMS Mantua Log for 17th May 1916

Recently I found the logs of the Mantua for that period on a very nice website called Naval-History.net. The logs are transcribed and scanned in here. This page records the day Patrick and Ellen got married and, sure enough, the Mantua was in the dock in Glasgow.

Patrick Toner
There is a family legend that my grandfather Patrick survived a torpedo attack during the war but I can't find the incident in the Mantua logs. I'll try and find his military service records and add some more detail but the log of the HMS Mantua is a fascinating read for now.


 

The Voyages of the HMS Mantua during WW1


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