From my researching the loss of my great uncle, A Y Thomson, DSM, I have established that he was chief engineman on HMT Northern Princess, which it is claimed was torpedoed by U-587, commanded by Ulrich Borcherdt. Regards, IanS
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I was browsing through this forum whilst searching for information on my great uncle who was lost off the US coast having been torpedoed by U-587. I believe that the mariners' first enemy is the sea and there are very few mariners who would not help fellow mariners in peace time and in war. Most of my family on my mother's side were associated with the sea, going back several gene
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