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Military service
Age:
19
Rank:
Able Seaman
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Nerissa (Hamilton, Bermuda) (147369)
Birth:
January 1, 1922
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Death:
April 30, 1941
North Atlantic
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 19.
Additional information
Son of Charles Horton Raine and Ernestine Anna Dill from Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The logbook of U-552 indicates that one of the three torpedoes hit the stern of the Nerissa at 0027 hours on 1 May 1941 and sinks south-east of Rockall, position 55°57'N/10°08'W. There were 91 survivors disembarked in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, by HMS Kingcup (K33) of the Royal Navy after being rescued by HMS Veteran (D72).
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 216 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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