Sedonis F A Jacobs

Third Engineer Officer, S.S. Kervegan
Died 9 Feb 1941
Commemorated at Tower Hill Memorial
Age 27


Sedonis was born in 1914 in Belgium. His parents were Alfons and Anna Jacobs. Please contact us if you have further information about his life and family.

On February 9th, 1941, a mayday from the British freighter S/S Kervegan, bound from Halifax to London with a cargo of pulpwood, was heard, reporting assistance as she was in danger of capsizing. This was the last time she was ever heard from. Days later, wreckage was washed ashore at Cape Agulhas, Nova Scotia. 26 souls were lost. Read more at wreck site: https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?147233