Second Engineer George Renwick Robinson

Son of William Renwick and Elizabeth Jane Little of Sunderland, Durham, England. William was a sailor in the British Merchant Navy. Husband of Hilda Brandon of Harton, England. Father of Elizabeth Jean and George Kenneth Robinson. Hilda married for the first time on 2 February 1916, in South Shields, Durham, the British merchant seaman William Andrew Grey who was killed on 20 February 1917 when his ship, the SS Rosalie, was torpedoed by the U-39.

On 10 December 1941 the Nereus, which left St Thomas, in the Virgin Islands, with ore, was sailing alone when it disappeared at sea. No German submarine claimed to have sunk her. Her wreckage has never been found. Sometimes coal boats accidentally caught fire from coal residue accumulated in the hold.