PHOTOGRAPHS


(1) S.S. THOMAS MCKEAN, US flag with planes visible on deck, being sunk by U-505 Loewe on 29 June 1942. Her master was later sunk in the Bahamas while returning to the US on ONANDOGA.


(2) Athelqueen - A Memorial Stone on Abaco - The Bahamas:
ATHELQUEEN was one of the ships sunk by the Italian submarine ENRICO TAZZOLI approximately fifty miles off our island, Elbow Cay, on 15 March 1942. The crew came into the beach here and were looked after by the local people. They were later repatriated to England through Nassau, Bahamas. Three of the crew died on the reef just before they landed here. This is recorded in the report of the Master, Captain C. J. R. Roberts on 30 June 1942. Three unidentified graves are on the dunes above the landing beach.
Tony Bennett, Curator; Wyannie Malone Historical Museum, Hope Town, Abaco, the Bahamas


(3) The sinking Koll covered by burning oil.

(4) CITY OF ALMA Unarmed U.S. freighter City of Alma is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-159 about 400 miles northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico

(5) LT.Cmdr Carlo FECIA DI COSSATO (Smg. Tazzoli), LT.Cmdr Emilio OLIVIERI (Smg. Calvi),LT.Cmdr Antonio DE GIACOMO (Smg. Torelli), LT.Cmdr Ugo GIUDICE (Smg. Finzi) receive the GERMAN IRON CROSS

(6) USS THETIS, which sank U-157 off Key West early in the campaign and was involved in dozens of other rescues, particularly in the Straits of Florida.

(7) “U-156’ rubber booty from the sinking of the POTLATCH east of the Bahamas: “ Korvettenkapitan Hartenstein is shown on the conning tower with inner tubes strung along the rigging and tires stacked on gun mounts on deck). From “U-Boats in Action”, but Robert C. Stern, illustrated by Don Greer, Squadron/signal publications, Inc. 1977, Carrollton, Texas

(8) Enrico Tazzoli

(9) It is hoped that the author can visit the plaque to ATHELQUEEN survivors on Abaco

(10) The author plans to obtain photographs of the gravesite of Johannessen in Cornwall, Abaco, from the O.A. Knudsen.

(11) photographs of Tappscott and Widdicombe being rescued from the beach in James Cistern, Eleuthera, as well as

(12) his reception by the Chief Medical Officer and Governor (HRH The Duke of Windsor and his wife) are available in “Brave Sailors All,” by J. Revell Carr and permission may be obtained to reprint them.

(13) For a photo of the damage to TAZZOLI, see http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~treevecwll/athelqueen2.htm

(14) Betty “Joe” Carstairs and her favorite pet doll Wadley – her yacht VERGERMERE was used to rescue the 46 survivors of POTLATCH and bring them safely the length of the Bahamas from Acklins Island to Nassau.

(15) The author has a photograph of himself with retired Police Constabel Elijah Mackey who rescued Widdicombe and Tapscott from the beached ANGLO SAXON lifeboat in 1940. Taken at James Cistern, North Eleuthera, in c.2005.

(16) The author has a photograph of the chart showing 32 of his voyages to/from Bermuda, including the location of nearly 50 ships which he has sailed over or within 20 or so miles of over 20+ years as a blue water sailor and yacht delivery skipper.
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