Embassy GY 469

Embassy Built 09/1928 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Letten Bros Grimsby
1932 Owned by EC Grant
08/1933 Renamed Wigmore
10/1935 Bought by the Clan Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
18/11/1939 At 23.06 hours U-22 Captain Karl Heinrich Jenisch fired two G7e torpedoes at the second and third ship in convoy IFC and missed. Four minutes later, the U-boat fired another G7e at the sixth ship and hit the Wigmore (Skipper Walter Bore) She sank within three minutes with all 16 of her crew Lost, being hit about 25 miles northwest of Rattray Head.
The vessel was fishing out of Lowestoft at the time of her loss

Surname	Forename	Age At Death	Date Of Death	Rank	Boat
GOODWIN	WALTER	41	19/11/1939	Deck Hand	Fishing Vessel Wigmore
BORE	WALTER	35	19/11/1939	Skipper	Fishing Vessel Wigmore
JACKSON	ROBERT WILLIAM	27	19/11/1939	Wireless Operator	Fishing Vessel Wigmore
OTTLEY	JOSEPH	35	19/11/1939	Deck Hand	Fishing Vessel Wigmore
WINN	ERNEST DOMANAC	49	19/11/1939	Cook	Fishing Vessel Wigmore
FISHER	JESSE	29	19/11/1939	Deck Hand	Fishing Vessel Wigmore
LODGE	WILLIAM HENRY	39	19/11/1939	Mate	Fishing Vessel Wigmore
BROMFIELD	CLARENCE VINCENT HARWOOD	43	19/11/1939	Deck Hand	Fishing Vessel Wigmore
NEWSON	ERNEST HERBERT	38	19/11/1939	Trimmer	Fishing Vessel Wigmore
MOORE	FRANK	54	19/11/1939	Chief Engineer	Fishing Vessel Wigmore
SMYTHE-JERROLD	FREDERICK WILLIAM	36	19/11/1939	Deck Hand	Fishing Vessel Wigmore
CLAYTON	HAROLD	35	19/11/1939	Deck Hand	Fishing Vessel Wigmore
DUMBLETON	HENRY	55	19/11/1939	Deck Hand	Fishing Vessel Wigmore
GERMANEY	GEORGE	25	19/11/1939	Trimmer	Fishing Vessel Wigmore
HARWOOD	ALICK	36	19/11/1939	Second Engineer	Fishing Vessel Wigmore
FOLEY	JOSEPH	56	19/11/1939	Third Hand	Fishing Vessel Wigmore

Her Details are

• Official Number 146910
• Yard Number 498 
• GT 345 NT 159 
• Dimensions 140.2 x 24.6 x 13.2 
• Quarter deck 77 Foc’sle 21 
• Engines Charles D. Holmes 96 NHP 11 knots 

Torpedoed and sunk at 23.30 hours by U-18 on the 18/11/1939