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Sailor Richard Owen

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Military service

Rank: Sailor
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Newfoundland Mercantile Marine
Division: SV Schooner Watagua a sailling schooner (St. John’s, Newfoundland) (126115)
Death: March 27, 1918 North Atlantic

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Husband of Mrs. R. D. Owen, of St. John's, Newfoundland.

 

On 27 March 1918, after leaving the port of Santa Polo, Spain, this sailing ship was attacked, boarded and scuttled by a German U-boat team from U-155 and sunk 450 miles (724 km) northwest of Lisbon, Portugal, position 38°54'N/18°24'W. Five sailors lost their lives.

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Page 55 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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