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Re: HMCS WEYBURN
Posted by:
jaime de linos
()
Date: July 27, 2007 10:42PM
i have a lot of information about this accident.
most of the informations, i got it in uk because no info is available in spain.
i even tried to get in contact with collins family without success.
let me know if you are still interested in this subject
best rgds
Juan Campos Wrote:
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> I have just visited the tomb of J.Collins in
> Zahara de los Atunes,Cádiz,Spain. He died as part
> of the crew of the Canadian Corvette Weyburn, hit
> by a German mine off Cape Espartel,near Gibraltar
> on 22nd February 1943. The tombstone mentions his
> wife Helen and son Anthony.He was 24 years old and
> after his name appear: Able
> seaman,R.N.P/IX.182689.
> I have already written a book about shipwrecks off
> the NW Spanish coast of Galicia,mostly British,
> and I am now researching a similar subject on the
> Southern coast of Spain,from Gibraltar to Cádiz. I
> would be very grateful for any information on this
> ship and sailor.
> My tel: 676830289.Postal Address: Calle
> Galón,1,2A.San Fernando-Cádiz.11100.SPAIN.
most of the informations, i got it in uk because no info is available in spain.
i even tried to get in contact with collins family without success.
let me know if you are still interested in this subject
best rgds
Juan Campos Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> I have just visited the tomb of J.Collins in
> Zahara de los Atunes,Cádiz,Spain. He died as part
> of the crew of the Canadian Corvette Weyburn, hit
> by a German mine off Cape Espartel,near Gibraltar
> on 22nd February 1943. The tombstone mentions his
> wife Helen and son Anthony.He was 24 years old and
> after his name appear: Able
> seaman,R.N.P/IX.182689.
> I have already written a book about shipwrecks off
> the NW Spanish coast of Galicia,mostly British,
> and I am now researching a similar subject on the
> Southern coast of Spain,from Gibraltar to Cádiz. I
> would be very grateful for any information on this
> ship and sailor.
> My tel: 676830289.Postal Address: Calle
> Galón,1,2A.San Fernando-Cádiz.11100.SPAIN.
Subject | Written By | Posted |
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HMCS WEYBURN | Juan Campos | 10/06/2005 05:13PM |
Re: HMCS WEYBURN | jaime de linos | 07/27/2007 10:42PM |
Re: HMCS WEYBURN | Dave Freeman | 09/13/2007 10:45PM |
Re: HMCS WEYBURN | Thomas Ormston | 10/27/2011 03:44PM |
Re: HMCS WEYBURN | Jaime de linos | 04/28/2013 02:57PM |