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Havre - Lives lost

Masters: 1906 GW Young: 1907-09 EG Badcock: 1916 GC Pearson: 1918 A Macfarlane: 1942 George Christopher Pearson.

Havre left Alexandria on 9 June 1942 on a voyage for Tobruk with a cargo of cased benzene & a compliment of 50 & was torpedoed by German submarine U-81 (Friedrich Guggenberger) & sank 50 miles west of Alexandria on 10 June 1942. 30 survivors were picked up by HMS Parktown. 2 gunners, the master & 17 of the crew lost. 20 lives lost.

Lives lost June 1942: Ah Lock, sailor, China; Ching Hai Hong, quartermaster, China; Millar, James Galloway, 2nd engineer officer, 45, Dundee; Pearson, George Christopher, master, 32; Sutcliff, Horace, able seaman (Royal Navy) aged 28, Goole; Thomas, Benjamin Charles, chief engineer, 49, Fishguard; Vaughan, Sidney, able seaman (Royal Navy) aged 27, Tunstall, Staffordshire; Youn Ah Ting, quartermaster, China.

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