Canadian Virtual War Memorial
George Alfred Hines
In memory of:
Able Seaman George Alfred Hines
August 27, 1941
North Atlantic
Military Service
74
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Tremoda (London)
Additional Information
September 12, 1866
Barton, Wentworth, Ontario
Son of Henry Harrison Hines and Margaret Pamelia Shafer of Hamilton, Ontario. Husband of Mary Jane Hatley of East Flamboro, Wentworth, Ontario. Father of Margaret May, Albert Percival, George Reginald, First World War veteran, regimental number 57342, fought in France with the 20th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and of Jessie Iona Hines.
On 27 August 1941, at 2:05 am, while sailing with convoy OS-4, Tremoda was torpedoed by U-557 west of the Achill Islands, west of Ireland, and sunk in position 53°36'N/18°40'W. The captain, 25 crew members and 6 gunners lost their lives. The 20 shipwrecked sailors and one gunner were rescued by the Free French frigate Chevreuil, which landed them in Kingston, Jamaica.
Commemorated on Page 261 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
London, United Kingdom
Panel 110.
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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