Jack Dunstan

TOWER HILL MEMORIAL Panel 71.

SS Nagapore

Nagapore SS was a British Cargo Steamer of 5,283 toins built in 1920. On the 28th October 1942 when on route from Suez - Durban - Freetown (16 Oct) - Manchester in Convoy Sl-125 and carrying a cargo of 7,000 tons of general cargo, including 1,501 tons of copper when she was torpedoed by German submarine U-509 and sunk NW of the Canary Islands. The NAGPORE (Master Percy Ernest Tonkin) was the ship of the convoy commodore Rear Admiral Sir C.N. Reyne Kbe Rn. The master, 18 crew members, including Second Radio Officer Jack Dunstan and one naval staff member were lost. The commodore, five naval staff members, 23 crew members and five gunners were picked up by HMS Crocus (k 49) (Lt J.F. Holm) and landed at Liverpool on 9 November. On 10 November, the fourth engineer J.J. Marshall and 18 survivors landed at La Orotave, Canary Islands, after being adrift in a lifeboat for 14 days. (wrecksite.eu)

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