Mr Hamilton, 61, said: "We've dived the site several times but have never found any significant wreckage.

"When we realised Peter had found something of such a personal nature we knew we had to try and return it to the family."

Having found the ship's casualty list on the internet and with information from the 1901 census, the divers, with the help of Mr Hamilton's wife Sue, placed Mr Cubiss' parents in Yorkshire.

They also discovered that following her husband's death, Florence had remarried.

From there, a trawl of the telephone directory revealed a listing for a JM Cubiss in York.

Mr Hamilton said it was with "a degree of trepidation" that he decided to call and see if he had any connection with Stanley's family.

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