Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Edgbert Howell
In memory of:
Boatswain Edgbert Howell
January 20, 1941
North Atlantic
Military Service
39
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Portugal (Antwerp, Belgium) (144664)
Additional Information
October 18, 1901
Newtown, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
Son of Tobias Howell and Sarah Jane Cross of Catalina, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland.
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.
Commemorated on Page 275 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
London, United Kingdom
Panel 84.
THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL stands on the South side of the garden of Trinity Square, a hundred yards East of Mark Lane Station, and just within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and the Liberty of the Tower. It is at the hub of maritime England. Behind it are Trinity House and the offices of the Port of London Authority, and the Thames stretches before it; the wide space of Great Tower Hill, leading down from it to the river, is the traditional forum of merchant seamen and their fellow workers. Lloyd's is on the North, the Custom House and Billingsgate Market are near it on the West, and beyond the Tower, Eastwards, is the long line of the Docks the greatest dock system in the world.
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