War Mirage Gallery

In convoy ON-53 on a voyage from London for Bermuda & Kingston-Jamaica with a general cargo including aircraft parts & a crew of 45 all told which included 6 gunners Culebra was sunk by gunfire from German submarine (U-123 Reinhard Hardegen) ENE of Bermuda in 35.30N/53.25W on 21 January 1942. The crew all got into lifeboats but were never found. All 45 lives lost.

Lives lost January 1942:

Bonner, George Douglas, master, 46, Edinburgh; Ashford, Augustus, fireman/trimmer; Blackwood, Arthur, carpenter, 59; Brook, John Henry, 4^th engineer, 24, Melthem, Yorkshire; Brown, Alfred Cornelius, greaser, 38, St Catherine, Jamaica; Brown, Nimbley, fireman/trimmer, 42; Buddell, Thomas Victor, able seaman (Royal Navy) aged 35, Dagenham, Essex; Cornell, John Frank, able seaman (Royal Navy); Farley, Robert Patrick, able seaman (Royal Navy); Johnston, Graham, corporal (Royal Marines) aged 25; Jones, Lowell, able seaman, 38; Lynch, Robert, able seaman, 46; Marshall, Vernon Cecil, fireman/trimmer, 35; McLean, Samuel, fireman/trimmer, 56; McNeil, Octavius, sailor, 51; Newman, Hedley Mathias, greaser, 48; Rooney, John Francis, assistant steward, 28, Eltham, Kent; Scott, Albert Edison, able seaman, 26, Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands; Spence, Leslie Oswald, fireman/trimmer, 35; Thomson, James Richard Ideson, chief steward, 40, Hammersmith, London; Tough, John, 3^rd engineer, 25; Vandaman Rajarou, ordinary seaman, 33; Warner, Gilbert Frederick, steward’s boy, 18, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire; Wilson, Edward Forsyth, chief engineer, 56, Switzerland; Wilson, Reginald Alfred, 2^nd engineer, 39;