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Jacob Jan Brizee was one of the six men who volunteered to jump overboard after Bennekom was torpedoed and swim to a hatch cover because not enough place was available on the last raft for the men still aboard. He was picked up by HMS Lulworth and landed at Bathurst on 20 November 1941. All survivors were taken to Freetown aboard the depot ship HMS Alca and Alderamin and eventually returned to the UK aboard Volendam, arriving in Avonmouth on 21 December 1941.

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