RE: What U-boat sank the Bedfordshire?
Posted by: Joe Brennan ()
Date: January 16, 2001 04:11AM

<HTML>Hi Andes & Frank

On the 12/5/42, U 558 sank the a/s trawler HMS Bedfordshire
off Cape Lookout, North Carolina. The trawler was on loan to the
U.S Navy. There were no survivors but 4 bodies were washed up
on Ocracoke Island. They were buried on the island and the site
is now a Commonwealth War Cemetery, the lease was handed
over to the Commonwealth War Craves Commission in 1977 at a
ceremony attended by the entire island population. Two other men
from the Bedfordshire\\\'s crew were buried in the Baptist Cemetery
at Creeds, Virginia.

Source: \\\'U-boat Operations of the Second World War\\\' Vol 2 by Wynn.


Regards Joe Brennan

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What U-boat sank the Bedfordshire? Frank Blazich 01/16/2001 12:49AM
RE: What U-boat sank the Bedfordshire? Anders Wingren 01/16/2001 01:40AM
RE: What U-boat sank the Bedfordshire? Joe Brennan 01/16/2001 04:11AM
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