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On 17 March 1944, the Grena left Aden, Yemen, for Abadan, Iran. On the 21st, at 1.04 pm, she was torpedoed in the Persian Gulf by the Japanese submarine I-26 and sank 30 nautical miles (35 miles/56 km) north-east of the coast of Masira Island, Oman, position 20°48'N/59°28"E. The shipwrecked crew drifted until the 26th when they were rescued by the HMIS Investigator, who landed them in Karachi, Pakistan, on the 26th, where Daniel died in hospital.
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Commemorated on:
Page 122 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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