Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Albert Lawton Prince
In memory of:
Chief Engineer Albert Lawton Prince
November 28, 1916
Mediterranean Sea
Military Service
38
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Moresby (Shanghai, China) (107022)
Additional Information
June 23, 1878
Saint John, New Brunswick
Son of William Lawton Prince and Susan Mary Bostwick of Saint John, New Brunswick. Half-brother of Sergeant Harold Wilmot Prince, regimental number 37184, Canadian Field Artillery. He fought in France in the First World War and survived.
On 28 November 1916, 120 nautical miles (138 miles/220 km) north-northwest of Alexandria, Egypt, the Moresby was torpedoed by U-39 and sank in 12 minutes with 33 crew members, position 32°36'N/28°38'E. There were 12 survivors, including the captain.
Commemorated on Page 60 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
N/A
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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