Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Charles Harford Goodwin
In memory of:
Able Seaman Charles Harford Goodwin
October 8, 1940
South Atlantic
Military Service
57
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Natia (Southampton, England) (145330)
Additional Information
June 29, 1883
St-Polycarpe, Quebec
His full name is Charles Richard Octonian Harford Goodwin.
Son of Thomas William Woodley Goodwin and Matilda Di Angelis of Montréal, Québec.
On October 8, 1940, the Natia was sailing in ballast from London, England, to Buenos Aires, Argentina, when she was intercepted off Fortaleza, Brazil, by the German raider Thor (HSK-4), which fired 35 cannon shots and a torpedo, killing two sailors and wounding two others, and sank her, position 00°44'N/31°12'W. The 84 survivors were locked in the hold of the Thor with the 264 other civilian prisoners. In mid-November, they were all transferred to the Rio Grande, a German blockade-runner, and landed in Germany.
Commemorated on Page 144 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 131.
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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