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Haxby - Lives lost 1940

In convoy Haxby left the Clyde 8 April 1940 on a voyage for Corpu Christi in ballast. On 17 April she left the convoy & was sunk by German merchant raider (Orion) on 24 April 1940. 24, including master, were made prisoners. 16 lives lost.

Lives lost April 1940: Cannell, Walter, deck hand, 32, Settle, Yorks.; Collins, Cyril, 3rd engineer, 20; Ennis, John, fireman/trimmer, 44, Margate; Flight, Herbert, ordinary seaman, 33 (son of George & Cecilia); Gallagher, Richard, fireman/trimmer, 36, Balornock, Glasgow; Henderson, Hugh, carpenter, 26, Kilchoan, Argyllshire; Kulvinskas, Peter, galley boy, 19, Glasgow; MacArthur, Donald John, ordinary seaman, 25, Carloway, Isle of Lewis; MacIver, Norman, ordinary seaman, 27, Carlaway, Isle of Lewis; MacLean, Robert Alexander, able seaman, 23, Dalaburgh, South Uist; McCormick, Martin Leo, 4th engineer, 20, Stockton-on-Tees; McNeill, Thomas Austin, cabin boy, Canada; Robertson, Edward George, mess room boy, 15; Robertson, Neil, boatswain, 54, Breakish, Isle of Skye; Steensohn, Edward, greaser, 60 ; Stidolph, David Norman, cook, 31, South Shields.

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