- Contributed by
- Shepshedian
- People in story:
- Joseph Francis Hughes/James Hughes
- Location of story:
- Belfast
- Background to story:
- Civilian Force
- Article ID:
- A4441178
- Contributed on:
- 12 July 2005
My father received the telegram on the 12 December 1940 that my two brothers were presumed lost in the North Atlantic. They were serving on the MV Victor Ross which had left Liverpool in ballast bound for New York on the 2 Dec. The Master and all 41 crew members had perished when the tanker was torpedoed 355 miles from Bloody Foreland by a German U-Boat (U 43) one of a pack of German and Italian subsmarines on patrol in the Western Approaches in wait for convoys leaving and approaching the UK.
We had to wait until many years after the war before full details were made available, all of which I now have to hand should any further information be required by anyone.
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