Biographical Data
Rothwell, Peter T. If you have images associated with this Person, please contact us at admin@nauticapedia.ca

 

Title	Air Mechanic (4th class) (RN)
Official Number	FAA/FX-76721

 

Birth	(nk)	Death	22/08/1944
Place	(nk)	Place	(At sea) Barents Sea
Area	(nk)	Area
Country	(nk)	Country	(At sea) Barents Sea

 

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Military Service
He was appointed as a Temporary A/Air Mechanic (4th class) RN. (He was killed 22/08/1944 while serving in HMS Nabob while returning from a strike against the German battleship Tirpitz (Operation Goodwood), she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-354 in the Barents Sea and sustained heavy damage. Five days later she steamed into Scapa Flow under her own power but had lost 21 men.)

 

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Last update
2011-03-16 04:17:12

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