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Merchant Navy crew members
Merchant Navy crew members

AHMED ABDUL
FIREMAN AND TRIMMER
ABDUL SALEM
FIREMAN AND TRIMMER
S.S. "BRANDON"
8TH DECEMBER 1939
ALI KAHTAN
FIREMAN AND TRIMMER
AHMED SALIM
DONKEYMAN
S.S. "ROYAL CROWN"
30TH JANUARY 1940

Built as the Holbrook in 1917 by J.L. Thompson & Sons Ltd, North Sands, Sunderland the 6668 gross tons cargo ship was renamed twice in 1923, first as the Bredon then as the Brandon.
Owned by Christian Salvesen & Co, Edinburgh, she was part of Convoy OB-48, sailing in ballast from Cardiff, Wales to Port Everglades, Florida under the command of her master Richard Black Chisholm.
At 11.55 hours on 8th. December 1939 the Brandon was straggling at the end of the convoy and was torpedoed and sunk 80 miles southwest of Fastnet (50° 28'N, 8° 28'W - Grid BF 1532) by the Kriegsmarine submarine U-48 commanded by Kapitänleutnant Herbert "Vaddi" Schultze who was on a 31 day patrol from the port of Kiel.
Nine crew members were lost including Ahmed Abdul who was aged 47 and Abdul Salem who was aged 38. The master and survivors were picked up by the Belgian trawler Marie Jose Rosette and the British trawler Tritten and landed at Milford Haven, Wales. U-48 misidentified her victim as the Navasota, but this ship had been sunk by U-47 three days earlier.
The S.S. Royal Crown of Newcastle was attacked and bombed by the Luftwaffe on the 31st. January 1940 resulting in the deaths of Ali Kahtan who was aged 47 and Ahmed Salim who was aged 51.
The Royal Crown survived the air attack but on the 15th. March 1941 she was shelled and sunk in the Atlantic (approx. 42 deg. N 43 deg. W) by the Kriegsmarine's Scharnhorst class battleship Gneisenau. All of the Royal Crown's crew were rescued.
The seamen's grave location is Sec. O, Coll. A, Grave 519, Lowestoft (Normanston Drive) Cemetery, Suffolk.

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