Looking for information

[Nicola McCormack]

Hello,
I am new but I am currently trying to find out more information about my great uncle James Kehoe from Co. Wexford, Ireland.
He was a boatswain on the Dione 2 ss. He died on 05/02/1941 when the Dione 2 ss was attacked, he was 27. He is remembered at the tower hill memorial.
Unfortunately this is all the information i have of him and i am just trying to find more information if at all possible.
Thank you.

[Doc Vernon]

By just a small record, see he was promoted to Bosun on 29/11/1940.
Died at Sae of Exposure after being attacked and Sunk by Gunfire

Looks like he was from Ballyhack Arthurstown Whitefold ????

Also has Campile Wrexford!
Cheers

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[Don Kehoe]

hi Nicola. He was my uncle. The family lived in Bally Kerogue and Campile, though I think Jimmy lived with his wife in Arthurstown when he went to sea. My dad is the last of his siblings and he has a copy of a letter to their parents from Liverpool where I think Jimmy passed his boatswain exam. His son lived with my parents in London in the early 60s.
Don

[Des Taff Jenkins]

I sailed with a young lad from Wexford on his first trip in Feb 52. I don't know if he ever went to sea again as we hit a Hurricane going across the North Atlantic on the Basford. It was the worst trip I ever did in 17 years. He even had the experience of a mast coming down, and a deck cargo of logs shifting.
Des

[Graham Shaw]

Just picking up on what has been posted:
s.s. DIONE II (O.N. 1125098)was a French built small cargo vessel of 2,660 gross tons,and 9 knots speed.Completed in 1936 for Soc.Navale Caennaise, named DIONNE,registered at Caen.In 1940 (July)she was seized as a British war prize at Port Talbot,and registered there ,renamed DIONNE 11, by the Brit.Govmt.

On 3/2/41 whist on voyage from Wabana,Newfoundland to Cardiff with iron ore she was aircraft bombed,then next day on 4/2/41 she was finished off by U-Boat U93 IN 55-50N,10-30W. 30 souls perished. 5 survivors were rescued and landed in Glasgow.

James Kehoe is recorded as death on 5/2/41 aged 27 yrs.
He is commemorated on Panel 35 at CWGC,Tower Hill,although currently panel 35 is in the process of an image being added there.


A link to James' commemoration is HERE. You can download a Certificate of Commemoration of James from that page.

[Graham Shaw]

...further notes.
The U-Boat net site has a photo of DIONE II,a list of the 30 crew who perished,and an account of the sinking.HERE

[Graham Shaw]

CONVOY SC 20--Dione II in Convoy

Depart Halifax on 22 January 1941.

Arrive Liverpool on 8 February 1941.

Hague's records contain 48 merchants and 7 escorts (38 ships TDS)

Vessel	Pdt.	Tons	Built	Cargo	Notes
ALCOR (Du)	54	3,526	1920	Grain
ALLENDE (Br)	11	5,081	1928	Steel
ARBUTUS					ESCORT 04/02 - 08/02
BARON OGILVY (Br)	43	3,391	1926	Steel
BARON YARBOROUGH (Br)	24	3,388	1928	Pitprops
BERNHARD (Nor)	25	3,563	1924	Scrap Iron	RETURNED, ENGINE DEFECTS & SICK MAN
BIAFRA (Br)	74	5,405	1933	General
BLAIRESK (Br)	44	3,300	1925	Steel, Lumber
CALAFATIS (Gk)	75	4,443	1917	Steel	ROMPED AND SUNK BY A/C
CAMELLIA					ESCORT 04/02 - 08/02
CAPE CORSO (Br)	21	3,807	1929	Steel, General
COPELAND (Br)		1,526	1923		RESCUE SHIP
CORYTON (Br)	61	4,553	1928	Grain
COULTARN (Br)	62	3,759	1938	Steel, General
DIONE II (Br)	91	2,660	1936		ROMPED & SUNK BY U 93
EINAR JARL (Nor)	32	1,858	1921	Pitprops
EMMY (Gk)	72	3,895	1914	Pitprops	RETURNED
EMPIRE ENGINEER (Br)	42	5,358	1921	Steel	STRAGGLED AND SUNK
ERICA					ESCORT 04/02 - 08/02
EVVIVA (Nor)	65	1,597	1921		RETURNED
FLENSBURG (Du)	13	6,421	1922	Steel & Scrap
FLOWERGATE (Br)	52	5,161	1911	Pig Iron	ARR WITH FURNACE DEFECTS
FYLINGDALE (Br)	81	3,918	1924	Wheat
HADLEIGH (Br)	31	5,222	1930	Wheat
HARVESTER					ESCORT 04/02 - 08/02
ILA (Nor)	33	1,583	1939	Pulp	RETURNED
INGER TOFT (Br)	26	2,190	1920	Pitprops
INGERTRE (Nor)	35	2,462	1921	Pitprops
IOANNIS M EMBIRICOS (Gk)	64	3,734	1934	Lumber	SUNK
KORDECKI (Pol)	92	1,975	1930	Steel	RETURNED
LARS KRUSE (Br)	34	1,807	1923	Pitprops
LYLEPARK (Br)	36	5,186	1929	Steel, MT	RETURNED
MACLAREN (Br)	41	2,350	1915	Timber	WRECKED, SALVED, REPAIRED
MANCHESTER DIVISION (Br)	82	6,048	1918	General
MAPLECOURT (Br)	84	3,388	1894	General	SUNK
MAPLEWOOD (Br)	51	4,566	1930	Grain
MATHILDA (Nor)	22	3,650	1920	Steel, Pitprops
MILCREST (Br)	12	5,283	1919	Steel
MYSON (Fr)	83	4,564	1927	General
NAROCZ (Pol)	53	1,795	1915	Newsprint	RETURNED
OTTER					ESCORT 22/01 - 23/01
PHILANTE					ESCORT 04/02 - 08/02
PILAR DE LARRINAGA (Br)	14	7,046	1918	Steel
PONTYPRIDD (Br)	16	4,458	1924	Pig Iron
QUISTCONCK (Br)	45	5,144	1918	Scrap Steel
RANELLA (Nor)		5,590	1912		STRAGGLER FROM BHX 104
RANPURA					ESCORT 22/01 - 04/02
ROLF JARL (Nor)	93	1,917	1920	Timber
ROZENBURG (Du)	46	2,068	1918	Pulp	RETURNED
SELBO (Nor)	15	1,778	1921	Pitprops
SEVILLA(Br) (Nor)	94	1,383	1921	Grain
SINNINGTON COURT (Br)	73	6,910	1928	Steel	RETURNED
TELESFORA DE LARRINAGA (Br)	23	5,780	1920	Steel
TRIDENT (Br)	63	4,317	1917	Grain
WILLESDEN (Br)	71	4,563	1925	Wheat

Additional notes by Arnold Hague and co-workers for convoy SC.20:

HARVESTER, ON PASSAGE FROM OB 280 TO JOIN, SANK DERELICT W B WALKER

EASTERN ESCORT, 6EG, JOINED FROM OB 280

COMMODORE: Capt A G MAUNDRELL CB CIE RIN IN MAPLEWOOD

VICE COMMODORE: SHIP'S MASTER IN HADLEIGH

Data supplied by Don Kindell, extracted from the late Arnold Hague's papers with the kind permission of Mrs. Gill Hague.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

A qick not, Nice to see you back Graham
Des