R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. Ltd
Newcastle-on-Tyne, England

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1922

March 14, 1922

Freighter

October 1922

Sunk by torpedo July 11, 1942 by U-582 (Kapitänleutnant Werner Schulte).

Location: North Atlantic, 400 miles west southwest of the Madeira Islands.
(31.15N - 23.50W)

Eighty-seven crew and passengers killed.
Three survivors picked up by HMS Rother K-224 on July 12.
(Note, most published reports indicate that there were 88 casualties, but the original
passenger manifest indicates that one passenger, William R. Lawn, may not have sailed.)