Casualty of WWII, Hugh was a Merchant Seaman with the United States Merchant Marine~Service # Z-390595. He died in the sinking of the "William H. Welch" off the coast of Scotland.
He entered the Service from Scotland
American Liberty ship William H. Welch had come in from The Minch and tried to enter Loch Ewe, on the western, Rossshire coast of Scotland. She was loaded only in ballast, high out of the water, hard to handle. When she struck the rough granite shoulder of the island near the loch entrance, she did not have a chance.
It was at 4:20 A.M., February 26, 1944, that she grounded on Fura Island in Black Bay, then instantly began to break in half. She was the vice commodore's ship, the second in a single file column of ten vessels that formed Convoy EN 50 bound for the Royal Navy base at Aultbea for orders.
The waves, smashing fifty feet high, cascaded over her wheelhouse topside and flying bridge. The strain upon the hull was intolerable. She snapped in half at 6 A.M., her longitudinals broken along the after side of Number Three hatch. All that kept her together then were her twin antimagnetic mine cables, and they almost instantly parted. The height and fury of the waves made the use of both lifeboats and rafts impossible. The men gathered on the flying bridge.
The ship's complement was seventy-four men. Captain Lee Marshall was last seen on the bridge. He was lost with the ship, among sixty-two others.
Fully half of the crew was swept away and never recovered. The recovered remains were buried at Cambridge, some of whose bodies were repatriated after the war.
See also:
Robert L Ouzts
-and
Edgar Jones
Daniel McMahon
Andrew Pavlischak
George Rusty
Henrik Sallstrom
Olaf Stoneman
Wolff Bernhard
Jasper Davis
Durward Mahalick
Vito Maro
James Patterson
Victor Planishek
Stephen Smiesko
Frank Hoyer
Clarence Bell
Moishe Berger
Sotirios Criticos
John Derzy
Arthur Furnis
-the above are all interred at Cambridge.
Lee Marshall [Captain] –burial unknown
Arthur Bestic - repatriated
William Butler - repatriated
Henry Perry - repatriated
William Taber - repatriated
He entered the Service from Scotland
American Liberty ship William H. Welch had come in from The Minch and tried to enter Loch Ewe, on the western, Rossshire coast of Scotland. She was loaded only in ballast, high out of the water, hard to handle. When she struck the rough granite shoulder of the island near the loch entrance, she did not have a chance.
It was at 4:20 A.M., February 26, 1944, that she grounded on Fura Island in Black Bay, then instantly began to break in half. She was the vice commodore's ship, the second in a single file column of ten vessels that formed Convoy EN 50 bound for the Royal Navy base at Aultbea for orders.
The waves, smashing fifty feet high, cascaded over her wheelhouse topside and flying bridge. The strain upon the hull was intolerable. She snapped in half at 6 A.M., her longitudinals broken along the after side of Number Three hatch. All that kept her together then were her twin antimagnetic mine cables, and they almost instantly parted. The height and fury of the waves made the use of both lifeboats and rafts impossible. The men gathered on the flying bridge.
The ship's complement was seventy-four men. Captain Lee Marshall was last seen on the bridge. He was lost with the ship, among sixty-two others.
Fully half of the crew was swept away and never recovered. The recovered remains were buried at Cambridge, some of whose bodies were repatriated after the war.
See also:
Robert L Ouzts
-and
Edgar Jones
Daniel McMahon
Andrew Pavlischak
George Rusty
Henrik Sallstrom
Olaf Stoneman
Wolff Bernhard
Jasper Davis
Durward Mahalick
Vito Maro
James Patterson
Victor Planishek
Stephen Smiesko
Frank Hoyer
Clarence Bell
Moishe Berger
Sotirios Criticos
John Derzy
Arthur Furnis
-the above are all interred at Cambridge.
Lee Marshall [Captain] –burial unknown
Arthur Bestic - repatriated
William Butler - repatriated
Henry Perry - repatriated
William Taber - repatriated
Casualty of WWII, Hugh was a Merchant Seaman with the United States Merchant Marine~Service # Z-390595. He died in the sinking of the "William H. Welch" off the coast of Scotland.
He entered the Service from Scotland
American Liberty ship William H. Welch had come in from The Minch and tried to enter Loch Ewe, on the western, Rossshire coast of Scotland. She was loaded only in ballast, high out of the water, hard to handle. When she struck the rough granite shoulder of the island near the loch entrance, she did not have a chance.
It was at 4:20 A.M., February 26, 1944, that she grounded on Fura Island in Black Bay, then instantly began to break in half. She was the vice commodore's ship, the second in a single file column of ten vessels that formed Convoy EN 50 bound for the Royal Navy base at Aultbea for orders.
The waves, smashing fifty feet high, cascaded over her wheelhouse topside and flying bridge. The strain upon the hull was intolerable. She snapped in half at 6 A.M., her longitudinals broken along the after side of Number Three hatch. All that kept her together then were her twin antimagnetic mine cables, and they almost instantly parted. The height and fury of the waves made the use of both lifeboats and rafts impossible. The men gathered on the flying bridge.
The ship's complement was seventy-four men. Captain Lee Marshall was last seen on the bridge. He was lost with the ship, among sixty-two others.
Fully half of the crew was swept away and never recovered. The recovered remains were buried at Cambridge, some of whose bodies were repatriated after the war.
See also:
Robert L Ouzts
-and
Edgar Jones
Daniel McMahon
Andrew Pavlischak
George Rusty
Henrik Sallstrom
Olaf Stoneman
Wolff Bernhard
Jasper Davis
Durward Mahalick
Vito Maro
James Patterson
Victor Planishek
Stephen Smiesko
Frank Hoyer
Clarence Bell
Moishe Berger
Sotirios Criticos
John Derzy
Arthur Furnis
-the above are all interred at Cambridge.
Lee Marshall [Captain] –burial unknown
Arthur Bestic - repatriated
William Butler - repatriated
Henry Perry - repatriated
William Taber - repatriated
He entered the Service from Scotland
American Liberty ship William H. Welch had come in from The Minch and tried to enter Loch Ewe, on the western, Rossshire coast of Scotland. She was loaded only in ballast, high out of the water, hard to handle. When she struck the rough granite shoulder of the island near the loch entrance, she did not have a chance.
It was at 4:20 A.M., February 26, 1944, that she grounded on Fura Island in Black Bay, then instantly began to break in half. She was the vice commodore's ship, the second in a single file column of ten vessels that formed Convoy EN 50 bound for the Royal Navy base at Aultbea for orders.
The waves, smashing fifty feet high, cascaded over her wheelhouse topside and flying bridge. The strain upon the hull was intolerable. She snapped in half at 6 A.M., her longitudinals broken along the after side of Number Three hatch. All that kept her together then were her twin antimagnetic mine cables, and they almost instantly parted. The height and fury of the waves made the use of both lifeboats and rafts impossible. The men gathered on the flying bridge.
The ship's complement was seventy-four men. Captain Lee Marshall was last seen on the bridge. He was lost with the ship, among sixty-two others.
Fully half of the crew was swept away and never recovered. The recovered remains were buried at Cambridge, some of whose bodies were repatriated after the war.
See also:
Robert L Ouzts
-and
Edgar Jones
Daniel McMahon
Andrew Pavlischak
George Rusty
Henrik Sallstrom
Olaf Stoneman
Wolff Bernhard
Jasper Davis
Durward Mahalick
Vito Maro
James Patterson
Victor Planishek
Stephen Smiesko
Frank Hoyer
Clarence Bell
Moishe Berger
Sotirios Criticos
John Derzy
Arthur Furnis
-the above are all interred at Cambridge.
Lee Marshall [Captain] –burial unknown
Arthur Bestic - repatriated
William Butler - repatriated
Henry Perry - repatriated
William Taber - repatriated
