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Welcombe - Lives lost 1941

Masters: 1930 J Snaith: 1941 Richard Edgar Johnson.

After dispersing from convoy SC-26 on a voyage from Baltimore, Maryland for Halifax & Loch Ewe with a cargo of 7,900 tons of grain & a crew of 41 Welcombe was attacked with a G7e torpedo from German submarine U-98 (Robert Gysae) & sank in the North Atlantic south of Iceland on 4 April 1941. 19 crew & 2 gunners were picked up by HMS Havelock & landed at Liverpool. 15 lives lost.

Lives lost April 1941: Carrigill, Arthur, cook, 58; Emerson, John Buckingham, sailor, 24; George, Herbert, fireman/trimmer, 33 (son of Stephen & Susan); Glassey, Samuel, steward, 36, Dundee; Hill, John, 2nd radio officer, 22, Hull (husband of Marie); Johnson, Richard Edgar, master, 59; Larsen, John Emmanual, carpenter, 23; Loveridge, Henry, fireman/trimmer, 40; Revell, Percy, sailor, 24; Shardlow, Frederick C, 3rd officer, 41; Skipworth, Ronald James, fireman/trimmer, 20, Grimsby, Lincs.; Stevens, Sidney, assistant steward, 17, Grimsby, Lincs.; Stocks, Geoffrey, deck boy, 19, Cleethorpes, Lincs.; Tindle, Edward Davies, chief officer, 21.

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