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Steward Stanley Scott

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Military service

Age: 36
Rank: Steward
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Kenordoc (Fort William, Ontario) (147782)
Birth: October 16, 1903 South Shields, England
Death: September 15, 1940 North Atlantic

Burial/memorial information

TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Grave reference: Panel 60.
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Son of John George Scott and Elizabeth Newton Williams from South Shields, Durham, England. Husband of Maria Giblin from Jarrow, Durham. Father of Catherine M. Scott.

She was en route from Quebec City, Quebec, Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Bristol, England, with convoy SC-3 when on 15 September 1940, at 12:16 p.m., she was torpedoed by U-99 about 44 miles (71 km) west-northwest of Rockall, west of Scotland, in the North Atlantic, position 57°42'N/15°02'W. Refusing to sink, the wreck had to be scuttled by HMS Amazon (D39) of the Royal Navy. The attack caused the death of the captain and six crew members. The thirteen survivors were rescued by the Amazon and the Royal Canadian Navy's HMCS St-Laurent (H83), which landed them in Greenock, Scotland.

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Second World War (1939 – 1945)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 224 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL London, United Kingdom

THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL stands on the South side of the garden of Trinity Square, a hundred yards East of Mark Lane Station, and just within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and the Liberty of the Tower. It is at the hub of maritime England. Behind it are Trinity House and the offices of the Port of London Authority, and the Thames stretches before it; the wide space of Great Tower Hill, leading down from it to the river, is the traditional forum of merchant seamen and their fellow workers. Lloyd's is on the North, the Custom House and Billingsgate Market are near it on the West, and beyond the Tower, Eastwards, is the long line of the Docks the greatest dock system in the world.

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