Tregenna - Lives lost 1940

Master: 1940 William Thomas Care.

In convoy HX-71 on a voyage from Philadelphia for Newport with a cargo of 8,000 tons of steel & a crew of 37  Tregenna was torpedoed by German submarine (U-65) & sank 78 miles NW of Rockall in 58.22N/15.42W on 17 September 1940. 4 survivors were picked up by HMS Fleetwood. 33 lives lost.

Lives lost September 1940: Africa, John, donkeyman, 45, b. Sierra Leone, resided Cardiff; Campbell, Joseph Fullham, 3^rd engineer, 20, Edinburgh; Care, Thomas William, master, 45, Barry, Glam.; Cole, John, fireman, 47, West Africa; Cole, Ross Charles, able seaman, 24, Kalinga, Queensland; Cooper, Lincoln Redvers, 1^st radio officer, 40, West Kirby, Cheshire; Cruz, Antoni John Da, fireman, 57, St Vincent; Dizon, Tom, fireman, 56, Sierra Leone; Duff, Robert Buchanan, apprentice, 20, Alerton, Liverpool; Edwards, Wilfred, fireman, 49, Jamaica; Fisher, Stanley Benjamin, 3^rd officer, 24, Newport; Gibson, John George, 2^nd engineer, 28, North Shields; Goddard, T, mess room boy, 19, Redcar; Grech, Emanuel, carpenter, 42, Malta; Greenway, James, boatswain, 62, Kinsale, Ireland; Hopkins, Edward, seaman, 21, Cardiff; Karlsson, Hugo, able seaman, 53, Nalmo, Sweden; Laurent, Joseph, fireman, 34, St Lucia; Mercia, William Francis Joseph, assistant cook, 20, Cardiff; Newberry, Thomas David, able seaman, 28, Cardiff; Nicholls, Charles, chief officer, 33, Plymouth; Nicholson, James Bruce, steward, 50, Middlesbrough; O’Brien, Michael, seaman, 26, Arclow, Ireland; Olin, Anton, able seaman, 47, Russia; Reynolds, Godfrey Charles, able seaman, 30, Merhyr Tydfil; Roberts, Trevor, 4^th engineer, 19, Aintree, Liverpool; Rouncefield, Kenneth, apprentice, 16, St Ives; Smith, James, fireman, 45, Jamaica; Swalwell, Dennis, cabin boy, 15, Middlesbrough; Thomas, Arthur Edward, cook, 26, Trecyon, Aberdare; Trybest, John, fireman, 56, Grangetown, Cardiff; Veal, William Cox, chief engineer, 45, St Ives, Cornwall; Walker, Samuel, fireman, 61, West Africa.

Survivors September 1940: Murray, F, 2^nd radio officer, 18, Buckie, Scotland; Pearson, Harry, 2^nd mate, 44, Aston-under-Lyne; Ramsey, Phillip, able seaman, 56, East Haven; Thomas, William John, seaman, 22, Bargoed, Glamorgan.

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