Lackenby - Lives lost 1943

Master: 1943 William Arthur Allon.

In convoy SC-117 on a voyage from Tampa for New York, Loch Ewe & London with a cargo of phosphate & a total complement of 45, including 5 gunners, Lackenby became a straggler from the convoy & was torpedoed by German submarine U-624 (Graf Ulrich von Soden, Fraunhofen) & sank south of Cape Farewell in 55N/47W on 23 January 1943. All 45 lives lost.

Lives lost January 1943: Adams, Phillip Scott, greaser, 30, Dawdon, Seaham; Allinson, George Frank, chief engineer, 40, Sunderland; Allon, William Arthur, master, 29, South Shields; Cowie, James Nathaniel, fireman/trimmer, 23 (served as Albert Edward Johnson); Donnachie, James, greaser, 40, Paisley, Renfrewshire; Elliott, George, assistant cook, 23, South Shields; Elsworth, Joseph William Sutton, fireman/trimmer, 22; Errington, Jacob, fireman/trimmer, 37; Flanagan, Daniel, sailor, 22, Jarrow; Fowlie, Thomas, donkeyman, 44; Fox, Robert, able seaman, 22; Fraser, Peter Alexander, fireman/trimmer, 44; Gass, Leslie, able seaman, 35, New Eltham, London; Gibbons, William Austin, 3^rd radio officer, 17, Chorlton, cum, Hardy, Manchester; Gorham, Joseph, fireman/trimmer, 60; Gray, James, chief steward, 40, Cleadon Park, South Shields; Harvey, William John, able seaman, 25, Jarrow; Hewitt, Arthur James, fireman/trimmer, 29; Jackson, Alexander, assistant stewards, 22, South Shields; Jones, Owain Glyn, 3^rd officer, 30, Caernarvon; Karlson, John, carpenter, 63, South Shields; Key, Harry, petty officer, 21, Walworth, London; Lodge, Alfred, 2^nd officer, 66 (husband of Hannah Jane); Lucas, Albert James, 1^st radio officer, 27, Errol, Perthshire; Lupton, James Tony, able seaman, 29, Edgeware, Middlesex; McManus, William Henry Carney, able seaman, 28, Boldon Colliery, Co. Durham; Melville, David, gunner, 20; Morris, Harry Albert, fireman/trimmer, 35; Mullen, Thomas, ordinary seaman, 19; Musgrove, William, 2^nd engineer, 42, South Shields; Newton, Peter, assistant steward, 17; Phillips, Edward, 3^rd engineer, 26; Phipps, Ben, able seaman, 23, Hebburn, Co. Durham; Rowe, Victor Henry, able seaman, 47; Russell, Ernest Leslie Lloyd, gunner; Shields, John Thomas, ordinary seaman, 19; Smith, Joseph Graham, ordinary seaman, 22, South Shields; Steel, Alfred James, chief officer, 27, Cardiff; Story, George Carlton, 4^th engineer, 21, West Hartlepool; Swanson, Cecil, boatswain, 31, South Shields; Thompson, Jack, able seaman, 19, Leeds, Yorks.; Watkins, William Right, fireman/trimmer, 26; Wells, Ernest Vivian, fireman/trimmer, 22, Whitburn, Co. Durham; Wilson, Andrew Charles, cook, 35; Wooller, Ronald, 2^nd radio officer, 17.

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