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Benjamin Cohen, served as Conn<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Steward, S.S. Almeda Star
Died 17 Jan 1941
Commemorated at Tower Hill Memorial
Age 23<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Benjamin was born in January 1917 in Bethnal Green, London to David and Elizabeth nee Abrahams and he was the eldest of four boys. In 1921 their father David worked as a hawker of fancy goods and in 1939 he was working as a tic-tac of racing (bookmaker).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 22 December 1940 the Almeda Star was on the River Mersey in Liverpool when she was slightly damaged in an air raid. On 15 January she sailed from Liverpool bound for the River Plate, carrying 194 passengers including 142 members of the Fleet Air Arm from 749, 750 and 752 Squadrons en-route to RNAS Piarco on Trinidad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 0745\u00a0hrs on 17 January 1941\u00a0the ship was about 35 nautical miles north of Rockall in heavy seas when German U-Boat U-96 hit her amidships with one torpedo causing\u00a0her to stop.\u00a0She did not sink so\u00a0U-96\u00a0fired again at 0805 and 0907\u00a0hrs, hitting\u00a0her in the stern and again amidships.\u00a0The ship had launched four lifeboats but still had people on deck when\u00a0U-96\u00a0surfaced and opened fire on her with her deck gun. \u00a0The fires on board soon went out so at 0955\u00a0hrs\u00a0U-96\u00a0hit the ship with a fourth torpedo, which exploded in her forepart and within three minutes\u00a0Almeda Star\u00a0sank by her bow. Almeda Star\u00a0had transmitted one distress message and the Royal Navy responded by sending seven destroyers to search the area.\u00a0They found no survivors,\u00a0boats or wreckage:\u00a0all 360 people aboard were lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also onboard were Rabinovitch, Phillip | Remembering the Jews of WW2<\/a> and Fleisher, Alan | Remembering the Jews of WW2<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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