Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Joseph Alphonces Nolan
In memory of:
Able Seaman Joseph Alphonces Nolan
February 24, 1941
North Atlantic
Military Service
32
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Sirikishna (Leith, Scotland) (164367)
Additional Information
March 25, 1908
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia
Son of William Nolan and Margaret MacLean of Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Brother of Private John Hector Nolan, regimental number 415087, of the 40th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, who fought in the First World War in France and Belgium.
On 24 February 1941, at 2:20 a.m., the 46-ship convoy OB-288 was dispersed west of Rockall, a rocky massif between Ireland and Iceland, by the attack of U-96. The Sirikishna is torpedoed on the port side. At 8:36 a.m. she received a coup de grace and sank rapidly, broken in two, position 58°00'N/21°00'W. She was the flagship of the convoy. The captain, the commodore, 5 naval personnel, the 34 crew members and the two gunners lost their lives.
Commemorated on Page 274 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 98.
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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