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After leaving Cardiff, Wales, with convoy ON-142, at 3.40 pm on 7 November 1942, the Roxby, a straggler from the convoy, was hit by one of two torpedoes from U-613 670 miles (1,078 km) north of the Azores and sank at 4.05 pm south-west of Cape Clear, position 49°35'N/30°32'W. The captain, 28 crew members and 5 gunners lost their lives. The first radio officer died of exposure in the lifeboat and was buried at sea on 11 November. Eleven sailors and two gunners were rescued after five days adrift by the Irish merchant ship Irish Beech, which landed them in St. John's, Newfoundland, on the 21st.
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Page 142 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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