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Son of Joseph Audet dit Lapointe and Léda Dubé, de St. Camille, Québec.
At 2:30am on March 14, 1942, the Sarniadoc was sailing unescorted to St Thomas, in the Virgin Islands, when she was hit by a torpedo, behind the funnel, launched by U-161 200 miles (322 km) west of Guadeloupe, in the Caribbean, and sank in less than 30 seconds with her crew of 21 men, in position 15°45'N/65°00'W. She is reported missing on March 16.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 88 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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