Merchant Navy awards

brithm · Jun 15, 2024

Second Officer James Haveron, Merchant Navy awarded M.B.E.

Larne Times 23rd November 1944

Richelieu · Jun 15, 2024

TAMWORTH (1,332 tons) - 25 July 1940

John Robert Gallagher, Gunner - BEM
Captain Charles Logan Sclanders, Master - Commended
John Emery Atkinson, Esq., 2nd Engineer - Commended
Eric Speakman, Gunner - Commended

Gallantry Awards | The National Archives

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Richelieu · Jun 15, 2024

TERLINGS (2,318 tons) - 21 July 1940

Thomas Ludlow, Esq., Chief Officer - MBE
William Charles - Prescott, Gunlayer - Commended

Gallantry Awards | The National Archives

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Richelieu · Jun 15, 2024

Omer Jama, Master of an Arab Dhow - BEM

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4392127

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Medal sold by Spinks 21/7/22: 227A - A most unusual 1940 B.E.M. awarded Master Omer Jama, who was dec...

Richelieu · Jun 15, 2024

Mike Kinnear said: ↑

Ref:- KIELY, Nicholas, BEM, posts 10, 27, 31 and 82
The ship in question is:-
THOROLD – bombed, strafed and sunk on 22 August 1940 in The Irish Sea, off The Smalls Lighthouse, in position 51 41N 005 40W (Lloyds) 2.5 miles South of The Smalls (BVLAS), by Dornier Do-17 aircraft; 11 of her Crew of 23 were lost
Awards for this incident are as follows:-
25 October 1940 Gazette Issue 34980, Supplement 6230, published 28 October 1940
Joseph John Duncan - Commendation - when Gunner - Merchant Navy: Gunner (Seedies)
10 December 1940 Gazette Issue 35011, Supplement 7014, published 13 December 1940
James Brown Bell - MBE (CD) – when Second Engineer
Nicholas Kiely - BEM (CD) – when Able Seaman
Ungazetted
James Brown Bell - Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea – when Second Engineer
Nicholas Kiely - Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea – when Able Seaman
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THOROLD (1,689 tons) - 22 August 1940

James Brown Bell, Esq., Second Engineer - MBE
Nicholas Kiely, Able Seaman - BEM

I didn''t see a citation for Bell in PREM 2/105 but there is a dual citation in the Gazette.
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Hugh MacLean · Jun 16, 2024

brithm said: ↑

Second Officer James Haveron, Merchant Navy awarded M.B.E.
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Larne Times 23rd November 1944
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Gazetted 10 June 1944 - Birthday Honours List. Serving aboard ss STORMONT.

Regards
Hugh

brithm · Jun 18, 2024

Captain Percy D. Allen, Merchant Navy awarded OBE

Liverpool Echo 11th July 1944

Hugh MacLean · Jun 19, 2024

brithm said: ↑

Captain Percy D. Allen, Merchant Navy awarded OBE
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Liverpool Echo 11th July 1944
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Gazetted 10 June 1944 - Birthday Honours List 1944.
Allen, Percy Duncan - Captain - OBE(Civ)

Serving aboard ss JAMAICA PRODUCER - ship survived the war.

Photo taken circa 1919 as 2nd Mate.

Regards
Hugh

brithm · Sep 5, 2024

Radio officer Stanley Powell, B.E.M.

Stanley Powell (British) - Crew lists of Ships hit by U-boats - uboat.net

The ship, sailing alone, was torpedoed 300 miles from the nearest land and sank within three minutes. The Chief Officer, seeing a number of the crew attempting to lower a boat, jumped into it with the intention of cutting the falls as, owing to the heavy list, the boat was resting on the ship’s side. The ship, however, sank too quickly and took the boat down with her. The Chief Officer and two members of the crew managed to reached an upturned boat which had floated clear of the ship. For two and a half days they clung to the bottom of this boat until weather conditions permitted it to be righted. The boat was found to be badly waterlogged and nearly all the equipment, food and water had been washed away. During the next six days two of the occupants of the boat died leaving the Chief Officer alone. Five days later he was picked up. Chief Officer Duncan acted with courage and resource in attempting to release one of the boats, when the ship was sinking and he displayed outstanding qualities of fortitude and endurance throughout the whole of his tremendous ordeal. When the ship sank, nine other members of the crew managed to reach three rafts, which they lashed together. They attempted without success to reach the upturned boat to which the Chief Officer was clinging. During the first night in the heavy seas one of the three rafts broke adrift and disappeared with three of the crew. The remaining two rafts kept together for about ten days, when one of the men died. During this period the remaining rafts were capsized several times by heavy seas and eventually one of them began to break up. The men on this raft were transferred to the remaining sound raft, but during the operation another man was lost. Four men now remained on the last raft, on which they drifted for a further five days before being picked up. Great courage and fortitude, were displayed by Third Officer Eaton, Radio Officer Powell, Fireman Cuthbert and Seaman Kirkwood during the fifteen days they were adrift.
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Mike Kinnear said: ↑

Ref:- KIRKWOOD, James Francis, BEM, ARLETTA, posts 66, 171
The ship in question is:-
ARLETTA - Torpedoed and sunk on 05 August 1942, when a straggler from Convoy ON.115, in the North Atlantic, SSW of Cape Race, in position 44 44N 055 22W, by U-458
Awards for this incident are as follows:-
26 March 1943 Gazette Issue 35959, Supplement 1478, published 30 March 1943
George Cuthbert - BEM (CD) - when Fireman
William Massie Duncan - MBE (CD) - when Chief Officer
Kenneth George Eaton - MBE (CD) – when Third Officer
James Francis Kirkwood - BEM (CD) – when Seaman
Stanley Powell - MBE (CD) – when Radio Officer
Cheers
Mike
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Bradford Observer 31st March 1943

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