Ordinary Seaman Murray Francis Melhuish was lost at sea aboard the SV Penang - a deep water square rigger Sailing Vessel
SV Penang left Port Victoria, South Australia for Queenstown, Ireland early in June 1940. Berlin radio announced that the Penang had been torpedoed and sank off the Irish coast by the German submarine U-140 with the loss of eighteen lives on 8 December 1940. She was listed as ´untraced´ at Lloyds in March 1941 and her official loss date is the 1st of July 1941
View family cenotaph at Payneham Cemetery in South Australia.
SV Penang left Port Victoria, South Australia for Queenstown, Ireland early in June 1940. Berlin radio announced that the Penang had been torpedoed and sank off the Irish coast by the German submarine U-140 with the loss of eighteen lives on 8 December 1940. She was listed as ´untraced´ at Lloyds in March 1941 and her official loss date is the 1st of July 1941
View family cenotaph at Payneham Cemetery in South Australia.
Ordinary Seaman Murray Francis Melhuish was lost at sea aboard the SV Penang - a deep water square rigger Sailing Vessel
SV Penang left Port Victoria, South Australia for Queenstown, Ireland early in June 1940. Berlin radio announced that the Penang had been torpedoed and sank off the Irish coast by the German submarine U-140 with the loss of eighteen lives on 8 December 1940. She was listed as ´untraced´ at Lloyds in March 1941 and her official loss date is the 1st of July 1941
View family cenotaph at Payneham Cemetery in South Australia.
SV Penang left Port Victoria, South Australia for Queenstown, Ireland early in June 1940. Berlin radio announced that the Penang had been torpedoed and sank off the Irish coast by the German submarine U-140 with the loss of eighteen lives on 8 December 1940. She was listed as ´untraced´ at Lloyds in March 1941 and her official loss date is the 1st of July 1941
View family cenotaph at Payneham Cemetery in South Australia.
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