It was mainly intended to transport fruit from New Zealand to the United Kingdom.

Merchant ship tewkesbury. A direct hit on the bridge by a 500lb bomb completely devastated the whole structure. NAME Donald Arthur MacDonald RANK Master AWARD George Medal SHIP Blairatholl. The representatives of the Hanse cities met at Lübeck and decided on war.

Sunk by U-69 Jost Metzler Position. I am the daughter of a merchant seaman and am trying to put together his working life aboard ship. Length 457 feet width 62 feet draught 29 feet.

The Tewkesbury Register reported his death on 3 April 1943. MV Gloucester 1941 was a cargo vessel operated by the New Zealand Shipping Company from 1941 to 1966. Milligan Stanley Merchant Navy.

Powered by steam turbine very limited passenger accommodation built 1921 by Chickashaw Shipbuilding 5686 grt. Second Engineer Gerard Llewellyn Turner and Second Officer Bernard Peter de Neumann won the George Medal on the 1st March 1941 for their actions on the SS Tewkesbury part of. On Friday of last week his wife Edith Annie Albina and Mrs.

The lifeboat was in command of the Chief Officer Mr David Howlett and he stated that the TEWKESBURY was torpedoed by a German submarine on May 21st at 815 pm. Hannibal took a number of negroes on-board whilst in. Sank in less than 2 minutes Med.

British merchant ships in convoy as seen from the Depth Charge deck of a Corvette. De Neumann was eventually released at the end of December 1942 and arrived back in the UK aboard the armed merchant cruiser HMS Asturias in mid-January 1943. All three ships were destined to be sunk by U-boats.