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On 8 January 1941, Portugal II left Gibraltar for Methyl, England. On the 11th, she transmitted her last radio message. On the 20th, she was sunk with deck guns by the Italian submarine Lorenzo Marcello. The weather was so bad that 4 Italian sailors fell overboard, while one drowned. The Portutal II lost 9 crew members.
Digital gallery of Boatswain Edgbert Howell
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Egbert Howell in uniform.
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Boatswain Edgbert Howell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 275 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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