Birth recorded
The Dennis Lound crew note gives his birth date as 13 August 1932, with a separate checklist noting the birth record still needs confirmation.
Crew biography · Lost at sea · Spare hand
Dennis Lound
Dennis Lound was a spare hand aboard Arctic Viking, aged twenty-nine when the trawler capsized. He was one of the five men lost at sea on 18 October 1961.
Life and work
The spare hand from Wellsted Street
The Arctic Viking Obsidian research vault records Dennis Lound as a spare hand aboard Arctic Viking H452. His crew note gives his birth as 13 August 1932, his age at the time of the loss as twenty-nine, and his address as 8 Endsleigh Villas, Wellsted Street, Hull.
The same note records his marriage to Violet M. Adams in July 1954 and adds a question about two daughters, marking that family detail as still needing confirmation. It also records him as a friend of Raymond Dodsworth, whose later account forms part of the surviving record of Dennis's final moments.
The main crew lists name Dennis as a spare hand. One later summary in the vault lists him as second engineer, and his own note includes a cautious "possibly 2nd Engineer." This page follows the main crew-list role while preserving the uncertainty in the record.
Back to crewWhen men were escaping to the raft, the sea was still taking people from them. Summary from survivor and newspaper accounts of Dennis Lound's final moments
18 October 1961
Seen in the water, beyond reach
Dennis Lound was one of the men lost as Arctic Viking capsized off Flamborough Head. The crew-location note records that men below scrambled up from the cabins toward the aft life raft, and that Dennis was lost on the way.
One account connected with Skipper Philip Garner records Raymond Dodsworth seeing his friend and watch mate Dennis Lound washed away on a plank. Another newspaper report says that, from the raft, Mate Ronald Dodsley saw D. Lound waving in the water. The men could not reach him, and by the time they had shipped out the oars he had disappeared.
Those details are among the most painful in the Arctic Viking record. They show not only that Dennis was alive after the capsize, but that survival was separated from loss by distance, weather, debris, time and the limits of what exhausted men in a raft could do.
The site keeps this as witness testimony rather than a complete final reconstruction. The sea, the overturned ship and the speed of the disaster left only fragments.
Friendship and record
Remembered through those who survived
The surviving Dennis Lound note records him as a friend of Raymond Dodsworth. That connection matters because Dodsworth survived and carried part of Dennis's story into the later accounts, just as David Cressey's family memory carried John Robinson's name.
The note also contains historical wording describing Dennis's ethnicity. This page does not repeat that language in the main text because it belongs to its time and needs more context. What matters here is that Dennis is remembered as a person, a crewman, a friend, a husband and one of the men Hull lost.
Like several of the lost crew, Dennis has fewer surviving details than the men who gave evidence. The aim of this page is therefore modest: to gather what is known, name what is uncertain, and leave space for family information or records that may later add to his story.
Record trail
What the surviving notes preserve
Marriage to Violet M. Adams
The vault note records his marriage to Violet M. Adams and marks possible children as a question still to research.
Spare hand aboard Arctic Viking
The crew lists record Dennis Lound, age twenty-nine, of Endsleigh Villas, Wellsted Street, Hull, as spare hand aboard the final voyage.
Lost at sea
Dennis Lound was one of the five men lost when Arctic Viking capsized and sank on the homeward passage.
Remembered in survivor accounts
Newspaper reports and survivor accounts preserve sightings of Dennis in the water, beyond the raft's reach.
Sources used include the Arctic Viking Obsidian research vault note for Dennis Lound, the combined and MOC crew lists, the crew-location note, newspaper reports including "I Learned How To Swim That Morning", "Death of a trawler - By her skipper" and "Ship Died In Curling Seas", plus later summary material that preserves role uncertainty. Where the record is incomplete, the page avoids inventing detail.