Documents for Philip Whincop 1856-1916
1875 Philip Whincop, 19, is apprenticed on 4/10/1875 to mariner Samuel Green for 2 years
'to teach the business of a Seaman and Fisherman and to provide him with sufficient
Meat, Drink, Lodging, Washing, Medicine and Medical and Surgical Assistance
and to pay the said Apprentice the sum of Eighteen shillings weekly for the first
year and Twenty shillings weekly for the second and last year ' ... etc., etc.
1879. A certificate of insurance exists for him to master any vessel insured by the company shown below.
1901C
The King Stephen - Philip Whincop was its first skipper (1901)- this from Garry
1915. Commissioned in the Royal Navy on 21/1/1915. Captain of the Silanion , this being converted to a minesweeper
Philip Whincop RNR ~1915 - photo in possession of Garry Whincop, grandson
HMS Silanion. [The Silanion was wrecked in Feb 1928 at Whinnyfold on the east coast of Scotland]
1916. .Philip Whincop, 60, died in Newhaven Military Hospital . He was buried Cleethorpes Cemetery on 18/3/1916 . Recognised as a Commomnwealth War Grave . He died, address 255 Brereton Avenue, Cleethorpes,, aged 60, at the Military Hospital, Newhaven Sussex, on 13/3/1916.. He died of Arterial Scheloris and heart failure
His wife, Mabel, received the following telegrams and letters
The above is, purportedly, the first communication Mabel received, on the morning of 14/3/1916, that he had died . She telegrammed back for more information and received:
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