Service Details
Name:
 JAFFE
Given Name:
 ISAAC
Initials:
 I
Rank:
 Steward
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Regiment:
 Merchant Navy
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Unit:
 S.S. Oropesa (Liverpool)
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Date of Death:
 1941-01-16
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Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action. On 16 January 1941 at 0356 hrs Oropesa was southeast of Rockall in the Western Approaches when the German Type VIIC submarine U-96, commanded by Kptlt Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, hit her in the stern with one G7a torpedo. Oropesa did not sink immediately, so U-96 waited and at 0440 hrs fired another torpedo, but that malfunctioned and went in circles. U-96 fired again at 0503 and 0559 hrs, this time hitting Oropesa beneath her bridge and amidships. The liner capsized and sank at 0616 hrs
Additional
Information:
ref. South African Roll of Honour 1939-45
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 London
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Cemetery:
 TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 77.

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