Carperby - Lives lost 1942

Master: 1942 Frederick Gardiner.

On a voyage from the Tyne for St Vincent & Buenos Aires with a cargo of coal & coke & a total complement of 40 Carperby dispersed from convoy ON-66 & was torpedoed by German submarine U-588 (Victor Vogel) & sank about 450 miles south of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic on 1 March 1942. All 40 lives lost.

Lives lost March 1942: Barker, Robert Coulson, steward, 37, West Hartlepool; Bennett, John Alfred, ordinary seaman, 18, Bethnal Green, London; Black, James, able seaman, 22, Jarrow (son of Alexander E & Elizabeth); Bradley, John, 3^rd engineer, 26, Hebburn, Co. Durham; Brown, Joseph, fireman/trimmer, 43; Bull, John, fireman/trimmer, 39, Freetown, Sierra Leone; Burnett, Harry, 2^nd radio officer, 29, Stonehaven, Kincardineshire; Cole, Sonny Michael, headman, 37; Copeland, Robert, able seaman, 38, Clydebank, Dumbartonshire; Fairley, Isaac, cook, 22 (son of Isaac & Annie); Farmer, Joseph, fireman/trimmer, 40; Freeman, William, fireman/trimmer, 32; Gardiner, Frederick, master, 31, Crosby, Lancashire; Gibbons, Albert Matthew James, galley boy, 16, Southall, Middlesex; Gordon, Phillip Ralph, able seaman, 18; Harding, Charles, able seaman, 31; Henderson, John, 3^rd radio officer, 17, Cleadon; Hicklin, George Thomas, able seaman; Hulme, George Harry, gunner (Royal Artillery) aged 23; Johnson, William, fireman/trimmer, 35, Freetown, Sierra Leone; Kenworthy, Joseph, chief officer, 55; Knowles, Bryan, carpenter, 32; Larsen, Niels Henry, sailor, 28; Lloyd, William, 4^th engineer, 30, South Shields; Logan, Patrick, cabin boy, 19, South Shields; McNally, Michael, donkeyman, 27, Jarrow; Maidment, Harold, mess room boy, 17, Carshalton, Surrey; Manney, James, fireman/trimmer, 44; Massalley, Joe, fireman/trimmer, 37; Mendi, Joe, fireman/trimmer, 45, South Shields; Mendi Abu, fireman/trimmer, 44; Mugeridge, Victor, sailor, 22; Muirhead, James, 2^nd engineer, 51; Pook, Walter, deck boy, 17, Carshalton, Surrey; Ryce, Leonard, able seaman, 24, Chesham, Buckinghamshire; Scarth, William, 2^nd officer, 26, Hetton, le, Hole, Co. Durham; Smith, James, assistant cook, 18; Taylor, George, donkeyman, 34, Raynes Park, Surrey; Terrell, Herbert Edward, 3^rd officer, 26; Thompson, Robert Henry, deck boy, 16, Middlesex; Vilenskis, Joseph, donkeyman, 49, Lithuania; Weisberg, Roman, boatswain, 39; Williams, Richard Edwards, chief engineer, 57.

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