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Military service
Rank:
Fireman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Regent (Riga, Latvia) (122)
Death:
June 14, 1942
Caribbean Sea
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 22.
Additional information
On 14 June 1941, at 7:12 pm, the Regent was sailing alone on the route Baltimore, Pennsylvania, Norfolk, Virginia, and Cristobal, Venezuela, when she was hit by the last two torpedoes of U-504 and quickly sank about 200 miles (322 km) south-west of the Cayman Islands, in the Caribbean, position 17°50'N/84°10'W. The captain and ten members of his crew lost their lives. The 14 survivors were rescued by the Honduran merchant freighter Atlantida, which landed them in Burrwood, Louisiana.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 201 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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