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Phillip Rabinovitch (Rabinowitz)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Scullion, S.S. Almeda Star
Died 17 Jan 1941
Commemorated at Tower Hill Memorial
Age 28<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Phillip was born on 19 November 1912 in West Derby, Lancashire to Polish parents Max and Rachel nee Epstein. Max worked as a cabinet maker and died in 193. Phillip served in the Merchant Navy, enlisting in 1935 and his first ship was the Lancastria. The 1939 Register shows him on leave living with his widowed mother at 8 Wide Street in Liverpool. The register states that Phillip is working as a ship’s cook on the S.S. Reina del Pacifico a ship which was requisitioned as a troop carrier in WW2. Phillip then transferred to the ship S.S. Almeda Star and worked as a scullion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the 15 January, the ship 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\u00a0RNAS Piarco\u00a0on Trinidad.\u00a0<\/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 Fleisher, Alan | Remembering the Jews of WW2<\/a> and Cohen, Benjamin | Remembering the Jews of WW2<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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