Patricia Nelms ca 1915-1944

P S 28yr. Those who died were Ann Straughton Wilson 31 of Sunnyslack, Mary Smith 39 of Maryport, Robert Swanston 43 of Cockermouth, Patricia Scutts of Great Broughton, Mary Katherine Barnes 31 of Seaton, Edward Lynch 53 of Dearham, Elizabeth Moses 47 of Little Broughton, and Jane Lister 18 of Dearham. Eleven people died in a blast at the Royal Navy depot on January 18, 1944. Mrs Wilson died in the explosion after swapping shifts with a friend. Her sister Vena Farish 85, of Ryehill Road, Flimby, is leading a new call for a memorial to be included as part of the proposed redevelopment of the site, now known as Derwent Forest. Seven women and four men died after a naval mortar bomb, being dismantled in a laboratory, detonated. Each bomb contained 25 pounds of TNT explosive and the building was scattered in pieces. The tremor was felt 15 miles away.