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Military service
Age:
61
Rank:
Chief Engineer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Tagona (Toronto, Ontario) (128188)
Birth:
June 5, 1856
Wallacetown, Scotland
Death:
May 16, 1918
Celtic Sea
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Son of Bernard McNaughton and Mary McKinnon of Auchinleck, East Ayrshire, Scotland. Husband of Margaret Ann McNauguton of Cardiff, Wales.
On 15 May 1918, Tagona was en route from Bilbao, Spain, to Glasgow, Scotland, when she was torpedoed 5 miles (8 km) west-southwest of Trevose Head, England, by U-55. She sank in the Celtic Sea with eight crew members, position 50°29'N/05°07'W.
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Chief Engineer James McNaughton
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Commemorated on:
Page 48 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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