FRYATT, CHARLES (1872-1916), British seaman, was born at Parkeston, Essex, on Dec. 2, 1872. He entered the service of the Great Eastern Railway Co., and in 1904 became chief officer in their service of vessels plying between Harwich and Rotterdam. In 1913 he was promoted captain. At the end of July 1916, it was announced that his ship, "Brussels" had been captured and the captain himself arrested and tried by court martial, on a charge of having attempted, on March 28, 1915, to ram a German submarine. The German authorities stated that Captain Fryatt had confessed that he had acted under orders from the British Admiralty; but the trial was hurried and secret, no intervention on the part of neutrals being allowed. The captain was condemned to death and shot at Bruges on July 27, 1916. The body was, on July 7, 1919, brought from Belgium to England and was buried at Dovercourt, near Harwich.