All three ships were destined to be sunk by U-boats.

Merchant ship tewkesbury. The sending of the grain by various ships and the loss of the victuals at sea. Shelford Robert Victor Kimberley Merchant Navy. Shipsan 2 Duddage Manor Business Park.

Ocean Venus Walker Harry Merchant Navy. Tennent Sutton UK 2001 suggests that the second boat from the SS Tewkesbury the Chief Officers was picked up by the Knoxville City owned by Isthmian Steamship Co. TEWKESBURY sunk by U-69 on 21 May 1941 CRITON RN prize captured from Vichy French by CILICIA sunk by Vichy French 21 June 1941.

British merchant ships in convoy as seen from the Depth Charge deck of a Corvette. Lifeboat and crew of 21 was taken aboard. 42 0 dead and 42 survivors.

It was mainly intended to transport fruit from New Zealand to the United Kingdom. Waterson sailed from the Tyne in convoy at the end of February 1941. Ocean Venus Tewkesbury Ernest Charles Merchant Navy.

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. NAME John Slade Miller RANK Chief Officer AWARD MBE SHIP Hazelside. 5 49N 24 09W - Grid ES 5554.

NAME John Morrison RANK Ordinary Seaman AWARD BEM SHIP Blairatholl. Copy of an inquisition concerning the order to Tewkesbury to ship various cargoes of grain to Berwick. 1927 - Craig Taylor Co Ltd Stockton-on-Tees.