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Fireman and Trimmer Clyde Prescott Crowell

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Military service

Age: 46
Rank: Fireman and Trimmer
Force: Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Merchant Navy
Division: S.S. Florian (Liverpool, England) (166292)
Birth: March 25, 1894 Digby, Nova Scotia
Death: January 20, 1941

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Panel 18.
Additional information
Son of Thomas Nickerson Crowell and Minnie Leslie Crowell, of Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia.

Leaving Oban, Scotland, in ballast on 18 January 1941 and heading for New York, United States, on the 20th, at 0.42 am, she was torpedoed by U-94 140 miles (225 km) west-south-west of the Faroe Islands, position 61°14'N/12°05'W. Her captain, 41 crew members and two gunners lost their lives. The Florian sank in 42 seconds by the stern.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 119 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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