HMHS "Llandovery Castle" ocean liner; hospital ship
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Morey;
husband of Lucy Catherine Morey (nee Aines), of ., Plaistow, London.
Born at Ryde, Isle of Wight,
Jan Lettens 16/02/2011:
" Llandovery Castle, built by .....was used in WWI as a British hospital ship.
On June 27th, 1918, Llandovery Castle, on a voyage from Halifax to Liverpool, was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-86 (Helmut Patzig), 116 miles west of Fastnet. Patzig, aware of his error (torpedoeing a hospital ship), decided to kill the witnesses and machinegunned the survivors who escaped in 3 lifeboats.
Of the total of 258 (164 crew, 80 officers and men of the Canadian Medical Corps, 14 nurses), only 24 were rescued in the sole lifeboat afloat by destroyer HMS Lysander. "
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Morey;
husband of Lucy Catherine Morey (nee Aines), of ., Plaistow, London.
Born at Ryde, Isle of Wight,
Jan Lettens 16/02/2011:
" Llandovery Castle, built by .....was used in WWI as a British hospital ship.
On June 27th, 1918, Llandovery Castle, on a voyage from Halifax to Liverpool, was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-86 (Helmut Patzig), 116 miles west of Fastnet. Patzig, aware of his error (torpedoeing a hospital ship), decided to kill the witnesses and machinegunned the survivors who escaped in 3 lifeboats.
Of the total of 258 (164 crew, 80 officers and men of the Canadian Medical Corps, 14 nurses), only 24 were rescued in the sole lifeboat afloat by destroyer HMS Lysander. "
HMHS "Llandovery Castle" ocean liner; hospital ship
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Morey;
husband of Lucy Catherine Morey (nee Aines), of ., Plaistow, London.
Born at Ryde, Isle of Wight,
Jan Lettens 16/02/2011:
" Llandovery Castle, built by .....was used in WWI as a British hospital ship.
On June 27th, 1918, Llandovery Castle, on a voyage from Halifax to Liverpool, was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-86 (Helmut Patzig), 116 miles west of Fastnet. Patzig, aware of his error (torpedoeing a hospital ship), decided to kill the witnesses and machinegunned the survivors who escaped in 3 lifeboats.
Of the total of 258 (164 crew, 80 officers and men of the Canadian Medical Corps, 14 nurses), only 24 were rescued in the sole lifeboat afloat by destroyer HMS Lysander. "
Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Morey;
husband of Lucy Catherine Morey (nee Aines), of ., Plaistow, London.
Born at Ryde, Isle of Wight,
Jan Lettens 16/02/2011:
" Llandovery Castle, built by .....was used in WWI as a British hospital ship.
On June 27th, 1918, Llandovery Castle, on a voyage from Halifax to Liverpool, was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-86 (Helmut Patzig), 116 miles west of Fastnet. Patzig, aware of his error (torpedoeing a hospital ship), decided to kill the witnesses and machinegunned the survivors who escaped in 3 lifeboats.
Of the total of 258 (164 crew, 80 officers and men of the Canadian Medical Corps, 14 nurses), only 24 were rescued in the sole lifeboat afloat by destroyer HMS Lysander. "
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Mercantile Marine
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