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On 7 December 1939, the Thomas Walton was en route in ballast from Port Talbot, Wales, to Narvik, Norway, when she was torpedoed at 5:00 pm by U-38 south of Svolvaer, Norway, position 67°52'N/14°28'E. The attack killed 13 of the crew. The shipwrecked crew boarded lifeboats, where George Forster Powell froze to death the same day. The captain and 30 sailors were picked up by the German ship SS Sebu, which landed them in Bodo, Norway, as prisoners of war.
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Page 214 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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