Elizabeth Dann, S.R.N., S.C.M., was a Nursing Sister in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (service number 250095).
On February 6th, 1944, she departed aboard the SS Khedive Ismail along with 52 other nursing sisters as part of Convoy KR-8 enroute from Mombassa, Kenya to Colombo, Ceylon.
Early in the afternoon of 12 February, the SS Khedive Ismail was attacked by the Japanese submarine I-27 southwest of the Maldives. Hit with two torpedoes, the ship began to founder and the passengers and crew began to abandon the vessel.
The submarine took a position beneath the Khedive Ismail; the HMS Petard proceeded to depth charrge the area even though there were survivors and boats in the water, as the submarine posed an ongoing risk to the remaining vessels in the convoy and the captain of the I-27 had a record of atrocities that included machine gunning lifeboats and occupants on at least two previous occasions.
1,207 people from the ship perished, 208 men and 6 women survived. The body of Elizabeth Dann was not recovered.
She was the daughter of daughter of John Archiebald and Mary Elizabeth Dann, of Port Talbot, Glamorgan.
On February 6th, 1944, she departed aboard the SS Khedive Ismail along with 52 other nursing sisters as part of Convoy KR-8 enroute from Mombassa, Kenya to Colombo, Ceylon.
Early in the afternoon of 12 February, the SS Khedive Ismail was attacked by the Japanese submarine I-27 southwest of the Maldives. Hit with two torpedoes, the ship began to founder and the passengers and crew began to abandon the vessel.
The submarine took a position beneath the Khedive Ismail; the HMS Petard proceeded to depth charrge the area even though there were survivors and boats in the water, as the submarine posed an ongoing risk to the remaining vessels in the convoy and the captain of the I-27 had a record of atrocities that included machine gunning lifeboats and occupants on at least two previous occasions.
1,207 people from the ship perished, 208 men and 6 women survived. The body of Elizabeth Dann was not recovered.
She was the daughter of daughter of John Archiebald and Mary Elizabeth Dann, of Port Talbot, Glamorgan.
Elizabeth Dann, S.R.N., S.C.M., was a Nursing Sister in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (service number 250095).
On February 6th, 1944, she departed aboard the SS Khedive Ismail along with 52 other nursing sisters as part of Convoy KR-8 enroute from Mombassa, Kenya to Colombo, Ceylon.
Early in the afternoon of 12 February, the SS Khedive Ismail was attacked by the Japanese submarine I-27 southwest of the Maldives. Hit with two torpedoes, the ship began to founder and the passengers and crew began to abandon the vessel.
The submarine took a position beneath the Khedive Ismail; the HMS Petard proceeded to depth charrge the area even though there were survivors and boats in the water, as the submarine posed an ongoing risk to the remaining vessels in the convoy and the captain of the I-27 had a record of atrocities that included machine gunning lifeboats and occupants on at least two previous occasions.
1,207 people from the ship perished, 208 men and 6 women survived. The body of Elizabeth Dann was not recovered.
She was the daughter of daughter of John Archiebald and Mary Elizabeth Dann, of Port Talbot, Glamorgan.
On February 6th, 1944, she departed aboard the SS Khedive Ismail along with 52 other nursing sisters as part of Convoy KR-8 enroute from Mombassa, Kenya to Colombo, Ceylon.
Early in the afternoon of 12 February, the SS Khedive Ismail was attacked by the Japanese submarine I-27 southwest of the Maldives. Hit with two torpedoes, the ship began to founder and the passengers and crew began to abandon the vessel.
The submarine took a position beneath the Khedive Ismail; the HMS Petard proceeded to depth charrge the area even though there were survivors and boats in the water, as the submarine posed an ongoing risk to the remaining vessels in the convoy and the captain of the I-27 had a record of atrocities that included machine gunning lifeboats and occupants on at least two previous occasions.
1,207 people from the ship perished, 208 men and 6 women survived. The body of Elizabeth Dann was not recovered.
She was the daughter of daughter of John Archiebald and Mary Elizabeth Dann, of Port Talbot, Glamorgan.
Gravesite Details
SS Khedive Ismail wrecksite; One and a Half Degree Channel - South-west of the Maldives near coordinates 01°25'N 72°22E
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