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Son of Walter Thomas Towan and Jennie Elizabeth Matheson from Westville, Pictou, Nova Scotia.
According to the logbook of U-52, this ship, away from convoy OB-306, was torpedoed at 1:17 a.m. on 14 April 1941 about 700 miles (1,127 km) east of Cape Farewell, Greenland, and sank at 2:10 a.m., position 59°50'N/29°39'W.
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Page 241 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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