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Rosenborg - Lives lost

Masters: 1916-19 PTR Jans: 1943 Peter Volmar Petersen.

In convoy RU-71 Rosenborg left Reykjavik on 22 April 1943 on a voyage for Belfast & Swansea in ballast with 30 persons on board, including 4 gunners & 2 passengers, & was torpedoed (U-386 Hans Albrecht Kandler) & sank in 61.00N/15.00W on 24 April 1943. 2 survivors were picked up by British rescue ship Goodwin. 2 passengers, 4 gunners, the master & 21 of the crew lost.

Lives lost April 1943: Buchan, David, 2nd radio officer, 20; Chetwynd, Alfred, able seaman (Royal Navy) aged 22, Chadderton, Lancs.; Edlich, Borg Bent, able seaman, 21; Frederiksen, Aage Christian, 49, Gentofte, Denmark; Frederiksen, Johannes Moller, 2nd officer, 23, Saby, Denmark; Hughes, Robert, able seaman (Royal Navy); Jensen, Tage Emil, chief officer, 36, Korsor, Denmark; Jorgensen, Eigil Jorgen, ordinary seaman, 20, Copenhagen; Knowles, John William, able seaman (Royal Navy) aged 36, Chadderton, Lancs.; Larsen, Svend Erik, able seaman, 20; Leighton, Thomas, petty officer (Royal Navy) aged 28, Belfast; Lund, Knud Borge, steward, 29; Lundbeck, Jens Christian, 3rd engineer, 41, Esbjerg, Denmark; Lusty, Harold Joseph, able seaman (Royal Navy) aged 20; Madsen, Neils Christian, chief steward, 43; Paulsen, Ernst Adolf August, donkeyman, 29; Petersen, Peter Volmar, master, 46, Stege, Denmark; Rasmussen, Svend, cook, 23; Rothgardt, Ernst, boatswain, 30, Esbier, Denmark; Tout, Stanley, cabin boy, 16, Mutley, Plymouth.

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