TO SAIL INDEPENDENT!......In many vast and lonely stretches of the world's wide oceans convoys were impractical. It was in these waters Allied Mariners faced merciless enemy U-Boat attacks in isolation and obscurity.

Apprentice Harry M. Fortune BEM SS Ascot

Gunner AB Douglas Hursell SS Nairung

Oberlt Z See Karlheinz Meenen First Watch Officer U-188