SS APAPA

On November 15, 1940, SS Apapa was struck by four or five bombs from an attack by a single 4 engined German Bomber, believed to be a FW200 Kondor aircraft. She dropped astern of the convoy enveloped in black smoke pouring from her after portion. She sank at 12:00 hours in position 54.34N, 16.47W (200 miles E of Achill Head, Co. Mayo), out of sight of the convoy but attended by rescue vessels. There were two hundred and twenty-nine survivors including the master, Capt. Davies, but five passengers and eighteen crew members perished. Nineteen are commemorated on Tower Hill, Panel 9.

CLIFFORD , Lady Hairdresser, HELEN MONA, M.V. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 15th November 1940. Age 46.

COLE , Cleaner, JONATHAN, S.S. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 15th November 1940. Age 26. Husband of Josephine M. Cole.

COX , Steward Hairdresser, CHARLES MORRIS, M.V. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 15th November 1940. Age 38. Son of Charles and Ellen Cox, of Liverpool; husband of Florence May Cox, of Liverpool.

FITZGERALD , Steward, THOMAS, M.V. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 15th November 1940. Age 39. Son of Patrick and Catherine Fitzgerald; husband of Florence Fitzgerald, of Liverpool.

FYNN , Headman, JOSEPH A., M.V. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 15th November 1940. Age 40. Husband of Doris Fynn, of Liverpool.

GAFFNEY , Steward, WILLIAM, M.V. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 15th November 1940. Age 51. Son of Julia Gaffney; husband of Florence Gaffney, of Speke, Liverpool.

HARRISON , Assistant Cook, FRANCIS CYRIL, M.V. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 15th November 1940. Age 36. Husband of Winifred Harrison, of Liverpool.

IRELAND , Steward, THOMAS, M.V. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 15th November 1940. Age 36. Son of Mr. and Mrs. George Ireland, of Liverpool.

JENNINGS , Assistant Steward, THOMAS, M.V. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 15th November 1940. Age 38. Son of Edward and Jane Jennings; husband of Annie Jennings, of Bettws, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire.

KENRICK , Purser, WILLIAM, M.V. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 15th November 1940. Age 54. Son of William Brown Kenrick and Mary Ellen Kenrick; husband of Mabel Kenrick, of Oxton, Birkenhead.

KOSOKO , Headman, JOHN O., M.V. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 15th November 1940. Age 27.

MITCHELL , Senior Clerk, ROBERT, M.V. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 15th November 1940. Age 38.

OBASA ADEKOYE , Cleaner, S.S. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 5th November 1940.

PHELAN , Assistant Steward, JOHN JAMES, M.V. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 15th November 1940. Age 31. Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Phelan; husband of Edith Phelan, of Anfield, Liverpool.

SHIMMIN , Fifth Engineer Officer, GEORGE EDWARD, M.V. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 15th November 1940. Age 26. Son of Robert Edward and Mary Shimmin, of Ballasalla, Isle of Man.

SMITH , Senior Third Engineer Officer, ALEXANDER ANDERSON, M.V. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 15th November 1940. Age 46.

WHITESIDE , Electrician, ALBERT, M.V. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 15th November 1940. Age 23. Son of John Albert and Alice Ann Whiteside, of Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire.

WILLIAMS , Cleaner, GBADEBO, S.S. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 15th November 1940.

WILLIAMS , Steward, HUBERT JAMES, M.V. Apapa (Liverpool). Merchant Navy. 15th November 1940. Age 58.

Commemorative data kindly provided by Billy McGee: http://www.british-merchant-navy.co.uk/.