Nursing Sister Kate Gribble, QARNNS,was a member of a group of twenty two Wrens being transported by the SS Aguila to Gibralter and duty at HMS Cormorant.
The Wrens and Nursing Sister Kate Gribble departed on the SS Aguila carrying a cargo of 397 bags of mail in a general cargo of 1,288 tons on 12 August 1941 as a part of Convoy OG-71 en route to Gibraltar from Liverpool. The convoy, consisting of twenty three merchant ships and escorted by six corvettes and two destroyers, was attacked by German submarines while off the south western coast of Ireland. Aguila was attacked by German submarine U-201 and sunk. The torpedo hit the Aguila amidships sending her to the bottom in ninety seconds. There were only 16 badly injured survivors, leaving a death toll of 145. Not a single one of the twenty-two Wrens aboard survived.
As a tribute to their memory, a lifeboat named 'Aguila Wren' was built and launched on June 28, 1952, for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
Nursing Sister Kate Gribble was the daughter of Thomas Henry and Clara Ellen Gribble, of Wembley, Middlesex.
She is rembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Panel 61, Column 1.
The Wrens and Nursing Sister Kate Gribble departed on the SS Aguila carrying a cargo of 397 bags of mail in a general cargo of 1,288 tons on 12 August 1941 as a part of Convoy OG-71 en route to Gibraltar from Liverpool. The convoy, consisting of twenty three merchant ships and escorted by six corvettes and two destroyers, was attacked by German submarines while off the south western coast of Ireland. Aguila was attacked by German submarine U-201 and sunk. The torpedo hit the Aguila amidships sending her to the bottom in ninety seconds. There were only 16 badly injured survivors, leaving a death toll of 145. Not a single one of the twenty-two Wrens aboard survived.
As a tribute to their memory, a lifeboat named 'Aguila Wren' was built and launched on June 28, 1952, for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
Nursing Sister Kate Gribble was the daughter of Thomas Henry and Clara Ellen Gribble, of Wembley, Middlesex.
She is rembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Panel 61, Column 1.
Nursing Sister Kate Gribble, QARNNS,was a member of a group of twenty two Wrens being transported by the SS Aguila to Gibralter and duty at HMS Cormorant.
The Wrens and Nursing Sister Kate Gribble departed on the SS Aguila carrying a cargo of 397 bags of mail in a general cargo of 1,288 tons on 12 August 1941 as a part of Convoy OG-71 en route to Gibraltar from Liverpool. The convoy, consisting of twenty three merchant ships and escorted by six corvettes and two destroyers, was attacked by German submarines while off the south western coast of Ireland. Aguila was attacked by German submarine U-201 and sunk. The torpedo hit the Aguila amidships sending her to the bottom in ninety seconds. There were only 16 badly injured survivors, leaving a death toll of 145. Not a single one of the twenty-two Wrens aboard survived.
As a tribute to their memory, a lifeboat named 'Aguila Wren' was built and launched on June 28, 1952, for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
Nursing Sister Kate Gribble was the daughter of Thomas Henry and Clara Ellen Gribble, of Wembley, Middlesex.
She is rembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Panel 61, Column 1.
The Wrens and Nursing Sister Kate Gribble departed on the SS Aguila carrying a cargo of 397 bags of mail in a general cargo of 1,288 tons on 12 August 1941 as a part of Convoy OG-71 en route to Gibraltar from Liverpool. The convoy, consisting of twenty three merchant ships and escorted by six corvettes and two destroyers, was attacked by German submarines while off the south western coast of Ireland. Aguila was attacked by German submarine U-201 and sunk. The torpedo hit the Aguila amidships sending her to the bottom in ninety seconds. There were only 16 badly injured survivors, leaving a death toll of 145. Not a single one of the twenty-two Wrens aboard survived.
As a tribute to their memory, a lifeboat named 'Aguila Wren' was built and launched on June 28, 1952, for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
Nursing Sister Kate Gribble was the daughter of Thomas Henry and Clara Ellen Gribble, of Wembley, Middlesex.
She is rembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Panel 61, Column 1.
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