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City of Bath - Lives lost 1942

Master: 1942 Thomas Victor Berkett.

On a voyage from Mombasa for Pernambuco, Trinidad & the UK with a general cargo including manganese, ore-copper ingots & mail & a total complement of 83 City of Bath was torpedoed by German submarine (U-508 Georg Staats) & sank NW of Georgetown-British Guiana on 1 December 1942. 28 survivors landed at Trinidad & 52 were picked up by the City of Dunkirk. Sources state 3 lives lost but CWGC lists 4 names.

Lives lost December 1942: Abu Rahman Qazi Ahmad, seaman, 34, India; Arfan Ullah, fireman, 24, India; Ayaz Ullah, fireman/trimmer, India; Finnie, George William Fraser, 4th engineer, 23, Aberdeen.

Survivors December 1942: Berkett, Thomas Victor, master; Faulds, Robert.

 

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