Swiftpool - Lives lost 1941

Master: 1941 Harry Raymond Clark.

In convoy SL-81 on a voyage from Pepel for Freetown & Middlesbrough with a cargo of ore & a total complement of 44 Swiftpool was torpedoed by German submarine U-372 (Heinz-Joachim Neumann) & sank west of Ireland in the North Atlantic on 5 August 1941. 2 survivors were picked up by HMS Bluebell. 5 gunners, the master & 36 of the crew lost.

Lives lost August 1941: Anderson, Magnus, carpenter, 63; Arnold, William Henry, chief officer, 46, Low Fell, Gateshead; Bain, Alexander, chief engineer, 41; Benton, George Ernest, able seaman (Royal Navy) aged 26, Lewisham, London; Bones, Harry, ordinary seaman, 33, Crookes, Sheffield; Burden, Cyril Harris, ordinary seaman (RCNVR) aged 20, New Brunswick, Canada; Chapple, Norman James, chief steward, 24, Beer, Devon; Clark, Harry Raymond, master, 50, Shiptonthorpe, Yorks.; Craven, Owen, fireman/trimmer, 33, Birkenhead; Cusworth, Alfred Ernest, 4^th engineer, 25; Cutajar, John, greaser, 35; Daycock, Robert Walker, 3^rd officer, 21; Donald, James, gunner (Royal Artillery) aged 30, Alyth, Perthshire; Farrugia, Nicholas, fireman/trimmer, 30, St Paul’s Bay, Malta; Fawcett, John Richard, sailor, 21, Scarborough, Yorks; Fielding, Cyril, 2^nd officer, 24; Galasso, Albert Herbert, able seaman, 22, Walton, Liverpool; Girling, Albert Charles, 3^rd engineer, 44; Hall, Frank, fireman/trimmer, 26, Preston, Lancashire.; Hanneth, Charles Leonard, ordinary seaman, 16, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire; Hartling, Harold, fireman, Canada; Heatley, Reginald Andrew, 2^nd engineer, 60, Albany, West Australia; Heffy, Herbert Anthony, mess room boy, 16, Walton, Liverpool; Hogan, Gerard, ordinary seaman, 18, Liverpool; Kelly, William, able seaman, 49; Loftus, James, assistant cook, 20, Speke, Liverpool; McCrorie, Henry, greaser, 34 ; McLaughlin, John, able seaman, 20, Co. Donegal, Ireland; Maddocks, John, assistant steward, 27; Montigo, Philip Anthony, able seaman, 20, Liverpool; Munroe, Allan, fireman/trimmer, Canada; Murphy, Michael, fireman/trimmer, 51; Reynolds, Ernest, able seaman, 23; Richardson, William, boatswain, 37, Scarborough; Richmond, Jack Fred, gunner (Royal Artillery) aged 27, Oldham, Lancashire; Roach, Sydney, able seaman (Royal Navy); Rogan, Thomas, fireman/trimmer, 36; Sidaway, Alwyn, 1^st radio officer, 30; Tasker, Arthur William, fireman/trimmer, 35, Hull; Taylor, Eric Peter, 2^nd radio officer, 19, Crouch End, Middlesex; Williams, Thomas James, fireman/trimmer, 30; Zenophon, Demetrius, donkeyman, 56 (may have been named Xenophon).

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