Mount Fryatt

This mountain was named in 1920 in honour Captain Charles Algernon Fryatt. Capt. Fryatt was a British merchant seaman who was executed in the First World War. On 3 March 1915 Capt. Fryatt of the railway ferry Brussels successfully dodged an attack by a u-boat and sailed home to a hero’s reception and received a gold watch from the ship’s owners. Shortly afterwards, on 28 March, he was intercepted again, this time by U-33 and as the surfaced submarine was lining the Brussels up for a torpedo shot, Capt. Fryatt turned and attempted to ram the submarine which was forced to crash dive in order to avoid him. His actions made him a marked man in German eyes. Over a year later, during the night of 22 June 1916, the Brussels was intercepted by a flotilla of German torpedo boats and taken into Zeebrugge. Capt. Fryatt was tried before a military court-martial on 27 July, found guilty and promptly shot.