Harry Martin

PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL Panel 80, Column 3.

Harry Martin was lost aboard SS Ocean Courage:

Name Ocean Courage
Type: Steam merchant (Ocean (British Liberty))
Tonnage 7,173 tons
Completed 1942 - Todd-Bath Iron Shipbuilding Corp, Portland ME
Owner Hain SS Co, London
Homeport London
Date of attack 15 Jan 1943 Nationality: British

Fate Sunk by U-182 (Asmus Nicolai Clausen)
Position 10° 52'N, 23° 28'W - Grid EJ 8994
Complement 58 (52 dead and 6 survivors).
Convoy
Route Pepel - Freetown (12 Jan) - Trinidad - USA
Cargo 8956 tons of iron ore and 8 bags of mail
History Completed in June 1942 for Ministry of War Transport (MoWT)
Notes on event
At 03.15 hours on 15 Jan 1943 the unescorted Ocean Courage (Master Thomas Harold Kemp) was hit on the port side on the bulkhead of #2 hold by a torpedo from U-182 and sank by the bow within 90 seconds about 200 miles south of the Cape Verde Islands. The crew of 48 men, eight gunners (the ship was armed with one 3in, three 20mm and two machine guns) and two passengers (DEMS gunners on passage) had no time to launch the lifeboats and most of them were lost in the sinking, including the master, six gunners and both passengers. Only a few men rescued themselves on rafts and debris, but only six men on one of the rafts were found and picked up by the British motor merchant Silverwalnut on 21 January and landed at Norfolk, Virginia. (Courtesy of uboat.net)

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