Sir James Knott, 1st Baronet
Sir James Knott, 1st Baronet was a shipping magnate and Conservative Party politician in northeast England.
Knott funded the parish church of SS James and Basil, in Fenham in Newcastle upon Tyne, in memory of his sons of the same names.
Knott's first steamship, Saxon Prince
The room which commemorates Sir James in the Literary and Philosophical Society building, Newcastle upon Tyne
Knott family gravestone in the churchyard in St Clement, Jersey
SS Glitra was a steam cargo ship that was launched in 1881 as Saxon Prince. In 1896 she was renamed Glitra. In 1914 she became the first British merchant vessel to be sunk by a U-boat in the First World War.
SS Glitra
Kapitänleutnant Johannes Feldkirchener