Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 99 Murray McNeil of New Glasgow – sailor; Edmund Reilly of Liverpool – head waiter; James Rozee of Halifax - assistant purser; and, Leo Thompson of Halifax - Able Seaman Ephraim Eugene Newell Donald Brenton Ross The war raged on, and the surviving officers and sailors of the SS Lady Hawkins were assigned to other ships. Three months later Chief Officer Percy Ambrose Kelly, MBE, was the master of SS Lady Drake when it was torpedoed and sank about 110 kilometers north of Bermuda. Six crew members and six passengers were lost. Percy Kelly, 114 crew members and 141 passengers were picked up by USS Owl (AM 2) and put ashore in Bermuda. Remembering the longest battle of WW II – “The Battle of the Atlantic” SS LADY HAWKINS continued ...
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