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Re: Marrietta e
Posted by: David H ()
Date: February 16, 2006 06:16PM

MARIETTA E
owner: Leith Hill Shipping Company
7,728 tons (gross) built 1940
torpedoed and sunk 4 March 1943 by U-160 in the Indian Ocean in position 32.04S 31.05E whilst in convoy DN.21, on a voyage from New York to Aden and Alexandria via Durban with a cargo of government and commercial stores.
The Master, Captain James Howard Williams, with 33 members of the crew and 6 gunners were rescued by South African Air Force launch and landed at Durban. Four crew and one gunner lost.
[source: Tennant 'British & Commonwealth Merchant Ship losses']


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Marrietta e David Wright 02/16/2006 04:17PM
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