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Richard John Vincent of 28 St. Marys Gardens, Kennington, London was killed when his ship the S.S. Baron Kelvin Merchant Navy. Born in 1908 in Lambeth and the son of Henry Loeta Vincent and Elizabeth Jane Vincent, husband of May Vincent Kennington, London.
The S.S. Baron Kelvin was a British steam cargo ship owned by H. Hogarth & Sons Ltd. (Glasgow) and registered in Ardrossan. At 06:14 hours on October 19, 1941, the unescorted Baron Kelvin (under the command of Master William Lindsay Ewing) was struck on the port side aft by a torpedo from the German submarine U-206. Attacked and sunk off the coast near Gibraltar. Crew members lost are commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial in London and the Merchant Navy Memorial in Cardiff.
Sold with the original Merchant Navy condolence slip and related civil Defence Corps Certificate of enrolment attributed to Audrey Hunter Preston Division dated 5.11.1956. A superb group with certificate.
Buried in Gibraltar (North Front Cemetery)
