Owners: 1942 MOWT (Sir R Ropner & Co Ltd.) West Hartlepool
Master: 1942 Frederick Tate.
In convoy E-6 on a voyage from New York for Trinidad, Capetown & Alexandria with government stores including tanks & aircraft & with a complement of 61 Empire Arnold dispersed from the convoy & was torpedoed by German submarine (U-155 Adolf Cornelius Piening) & sank about 500 miles NE of Trinidad on 4 August 1942. 51 survivors were picked up 8 days later by Norwegian steamer Dalvanger. The master was wounded but taken from a lifeboat & made prisoner. 1 gunner & 8 of the crew lost.
Lives lost August 1942: Burke, James, fireman/trimmer, 26, Liverpool; Cassie, George, chief engineer, 37; Cunningham, James Joseph, fireman/trimmer, 37, Liverpool; Davis, Joseph, fireman/trimmer, 42; Hand, John Alexander, donkeyman, 50, West Hartlepool; Hull, Reynold Nicholson, 2nd engineer, 34, South Shields; Laight, Charles Henry, able seaman (Royal Navy) aged 27, Cotteridge, Birmingham; Reed, John, 4th engineer, 21, West Hartlepool; Symonds, James Mark, ordinary seaman, 21.
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Empire Arnold - Lives lost 1942
