Hartington - Lives lost 1942

Master: 1942 Maurice James Edwards.

Hartington sailed from Halifax on 27 October 1942 in convoy SC-107 on a voyage for Belfast with 8000 tons of wheat, 6 tanks as deck cargo & a total complement of 48. She became a straggler & was torpedoed by German submarine U-438 (Franzius). The crew abandoned ship & she was hit by another torpedo from German submarine U-521 (Klaus Bargsten) & sank on 2 November 1942 in 52.30N/45.30W. The crew left in 2 lifeboats which were separated in the severe weather with one never found. 2 gunners, the master & 21 of the crew were lost. 25 lives lost.

Lives lost November 1942: Arkley, Robert, 4^th engineer, 22, Sutton, Surrey; Brewster, Jack, cadet, 18, Hull; Chapman, Alfred Henry, able seaman (Royal Navy) aged 36 Harrow, Middlesex;

Clements, Owen William, chief officer, 37, Barry, Glamorgan ; Davies, Brymor Edgar, cadet, 18, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire; Dawson, Robert, 2^nd engineer, 30; Donkin, Lancelot, greaser, 52 ; Edwards, Maurice James, master; Gibb, Edwin Gilchrist, 1^st radio officer, 28; Griffiths, George David, fireman/trimmer, 18, Wellingborough Northants.;

Harding, Harold Osmond, cabin boy, 17, Pleck, Staffordshire; Hose, Michael Terence, 3^rd officer, 21; Huckle, William Arthur, able seaman, 39, Ashtead, Surrey; Leask, Magnus, able seaman, 53; Maccoy, Septimus Thomas Leslie, assistant steward, 18, South Shields; Maclean, Duncan, fireman/trimmer, 49; Macrae, John, carpenter, 60; Madore, Walter, boatswain, 36; Ramm, Oliver, able seaman, 23, Cleadon, County Durham; Scarfe, James Henry, assistant steward, 24; Spencer, George Alfred, able seaman, 32, Walker, Newcastle-on-Tyne; Thompson, Frederick George, cook, 34, South Shields (his brother Ernest also fell in this War); Tyler, Alfred George, fireman/trimmer, 20.

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