Leading Seaman D/JX 186091 Louis Edward ROSE
Royal Navy H.M.L.S.T. 362
2 Mar 1944 aged 29
Plymouth Naval Memorial, Panel 85, Column 3.
Son of Frederick Alfred and Eleanor Ann Rose
Husband of Doris Mary Rose, of Offerton, Cheshire.
At 02:50 hours on 2 Mar 1944 Type VIIC U-744 (Oberleutnant Heinz Blischke) fired a spread of four torpedoes at a convoy of four small tankers about 370 miles southwest of Cape Clear and reported sinking three of them. The U-boat retreated after being attacked by a destroyer and unsuccessfully firing a Gnat from the stern torpedo tube at it.
In fact, the attacked ships were a group of four landing ships (H.M.L.S.T.-324, H.M.L.S.T-362, H.M.L.S.T-413 and H.M.L.S.T-427 ) that were detached from the combined convoy MKS-40/SL-149 on 1 March and escorted by H.M.S. Rockwood, only H.M.L.S.T-362 (Lieutenant R.W. Newton) was actually hit and sunk in this attack. Of the 180 on-board 15 crew and 73 army personnel were killed.
H.M. Landing Ship Tanks the same type as H.M.L.S.T. 362 (photos from Wikipedia and Navsource)
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