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Born in
Newfoundland
in 1885. He served in the merchant navy in the First World War
and was thrice torpedoed. During all the Second World War he
commanded the 26,000-ton Canadian Pacific ship Empress of
Japan, (renamed Empress of Scotland after
Japan
entered the war). He was the only merchant navy recipient of the
CBE, which he won for his skill in handling his ship while it
was being attacked by the Luftwaffe off
Ireland
on 9 November 1940, in the area where her larger sister-ship
Empress of Britain had been torpedoed just two weeks before.
He died in
Vancouver
in 1965.
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