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Ordinary Seaman James Martin Sweeney

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Military service

Age: 19
Rank: Ordinary Seaman
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Sirikishna (Leith, Scotland) (164367)
Birth: February 27, 1921 Lingan, Nova Scotia
Death: February 23, 1941 North Atlantic

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Grave reference: Panel 19.
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Son of Martin John Sweeney and Catherine Elizabeth McIntyre from Lingan, Nova Scotia.

On 24 February 1941, at 2:20 a.m., the 46-ship convoy OB-288 was dispersed west of Rockall, a rocky massif between Ireland and Iceland, by the attack of U-96. The Sirikishna is torpedoed on the port side. At 8:36 a.m. she received a coup de grace and sank rapidly, broken in two, position 58°00'N/21°00'W. She was the flagship of the convoy. The captain, the commodore, 5 naval personnel, the 34 crew members and the two gunners lost their lives.

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Page 236 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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