CLAYPITT Sydney Daniel
Sydney Daniel CLAYPITT
Petty Officer 197467, H.M.S. Vivid
Died Aged 35, 2nd June 1918, UNITED KINGDOM
Buried with Honour at PLYMOUTH OLD CEMETERY
Married Bessie Elsie GAYLARD in Jun qtr 1910 and lived at Rock Hill Row, Mumbles. They had one daughter Dorothy in 1911
Son of Daniel and Mary Claypitt, nee HOWELL, who married in September qtr, 1881, Swansea
Sidney was 21 years of age when his father died so would have helped his mother bring up his other eleven brothers and sisters
Born December qtr.1882, Baptised, All Saints 7th January 1883.
Sidney's father Daniel, was 2nd Coxwain of the Mumbles Lifeboat “James Stevens No.12” and one of the six men who lost their lives in the second Mumbles Lifeboat Disaster on 1st Feb 1903, at Port Talbot Harbour.
He joined the Royal Navy as a career and was employed in Plymouth, where he married his wife.
He was involved with Naval training in Plymouth and died from sickness at the Royal Naval Barracks 2 June 1918, possibly from Spanish Flu, which was responsible for many deaths at this time.
Bessie went on to remarry Richard WARD in Sep qtr 1920 in Plymouth [5b 576] and Dorothy married William H. MILLER in Sep 1930, Plymouth [5b 594] and had a son David in 1932
Additional research by Alun Bevan:
HMS Vivid was the Navy barracks at Devonport. A number of ships were renamed HMS Vivid whilst serving as depot ships for the base: HMS Cuckoo was an Ant class iron screw gunboat, launched in 1873 and was HMS Vivid between 1912 and 1920
The Ant-class gunboat was a class of twenty-four Royal Navy flat-iron gunboats mounting a single 10-inch gun, built between 1870 and 1880. They carried no masts or sails, being among the first Royal Navy vessels not to do so.
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org