information below received recently from Mark Fawcett,
Please let Mary know (if you have her email details) that information she seeks ref the sinking of the ships her uncles served on during the war is available via a website called uboat.net .
The ‘Black Osp’ that Mary refers to was the Black Osprey and can be found using the search facility for what happened on 18th Feb .. turns out it was sunk by U96 whose captain was strongly linked to the famous film ‘Das Boot’ .
The other boat Mary refers to as ‘SS Eff’ is listed as Effna and was torpedoed on Feb 28th 1941.
Appropriately both ships were registered to Newcastle owners … uboat.net also has a picture of the Black Osprey and details the coordinates of where both ships were sunk .
Thanks Mark, hopefully Mary is tuning in!
I remember that night the bomb was dropped on the Wilkinson factory. I lived in Grey Street. My aunt was an air raid warden that night at the factory. As a young boy I helped to move bottles out of the factory. I lived in North Queen St. also Tynemouth Rd. Reading your article brings back happy memories.
regards John Howes
I remember that night the bomb was dropped on the Wilkinson factory. I lived in Grey Street. My aunt was an air raid warden that night at the factory. As a young boy I helped to move bottles out of the factory. I lived in North Queen St. also Tynemouth Rd. Reading your article brings back happy memories.
regards John Howes
I Lived in North King street at the time I was 5 and we played truant to get the Glass alleys from the broken bottles, we had no concept of the disaster at the time but we were given short shrift from the police and a big row from my mam when I got sent home,I remembered the bomb in Grey street round the corner from coburg terrace, there was a vacant site there for years after wards, I an 74 now but I remember it DWR