A further fisherman to die in the hostilities, Francis was Second Hand aboard the H.M.S. Mewstone, a large converted trawler.  Like his father, also Francis Edward, and who also served as a Second Hand aboard the Bon Avenia in the Great War, Francis the younger was sent to sea on minesweeping duties but unlike his father did not return.

          Another man whose boat simply ‘vanished’ somewhere in the North Sea it is still not known what happened the Mewstone or her crew and it was left to Francis’ wife Elizabeth who lived in Garden Village, Hull and his mother Annie to mourn the loss of a loved one with no idea as to his actual fate.