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Son of Sigurd Kornelius Silvertson Sandnes (aka Sam S. Sandness) and Olina (aka Lina) Andersdotter Fossen from Eidsa, Norway.
On 16 December 1940, the SS Jumna left Liverpool, England, for Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, via Freetown, Sierra Leone, with convoy OB-260, of which she was the flagship. On the 19th, the ships dispersed at sea and on the 25th, the Jumna was intercepted and sunk by gunfire from the German battlecruiser Admiral Hipper north of the Azores Islands. The captain, 64 crew members and 44 passengers lost their lives.
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 222 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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