Dad's gold watch

[Ian Adrian Millar]

DAD'S GOLD WATCH

It's lying on the ocean bed,
Just south of Greenland's shore.
My father's golden pocket watch,
In a ship which is no more.

It was trying times in forty one,
In the war with Germany.
The GYPSUM QUEEN on even keel,
Submerged beneath the sea.

Dad survived that brush with death,
Just how we'll never know.
But his golden watch in solitude,
On the ship remains below.

A birthday gift from mom and dad,
To their son now out at sea.
Remains aboard the GYPSUM QUEEN,
For all eternity.

Ian Adrian Millar

[Keith at Tregenna]

The master, eight crew members and one gunner from the Gypsum Queen (Master Alban Jason Chapman) were lost. 23 crew members and three gunners were picked up by the Norwegian steam merchant Vestland and landed at Belfast.

https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/1102.html

https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?30920

[Ian Adrian Millar]

My father was one of the lucky ones picked up by the Norwegen VESTLAND. He did lose his gold watch in the sinking, it was a gift to him from his mother and father and it was engraved inside the hunter case FOR ADRIAN WITH LOVE MOM AND DAD 1936. For a number of years we used to have visits from Sverre Karlsen who was the gunner aboard the VESTLAND and who had advanced to the rank of Chief Mate in the Norwegian Merchant Marine. An old friend, passed on now.

[John Pruden]

i remember getting my dad an orris pocket watch after he passed it went back to me barb put it through a hot wash in the washer came out with no numbers on it?? jp

[happy daze john in oz]

That sounds a bit like a Las Palmas one.
Looked good, sounded good until about an hour after the ship sailed, then it went over the wall as it had no inside.