Sailor Kenneth Richard GREEN
Canadian Merchant Navy S.S. Montreal City (Bristol, England)
21 Dec 1942
Halifax Memorial, Canada, Panel 21.
At 03:56 on 21 Dec 1942 the unescorted Montreal City (Master Edward Roylands Wolferstan Chanter), a straggler on convoy ON-152, was hit aft by a stern torpedo from Type VIIC U-591 (Kapitänleutnant Hans-Jürgen Zetzsche) about 600 miles east-northeast of St. John’s, Newfoundland. The U-boat had spotted the ship in bad weather about 15 minutes earlier and missed her with a spread of three torpedoes at 03:50.
The crew was observed to abandon ship in three lifeboats after an emergency message was sent and received by other ships of convoy. At 04:09 hours, a coup de grâce was fired because the vessel only settled slowly by the stern. The torpedo struck the Montreal City amidships and caused her to sink by the stern within two minutes. The Master, 32 crew members and seven gunners were lost.
Montreal City (photo from Uboat.net)
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