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Andrew James Redding

Birth	:	20 Oct 1919
Death	:	12 Mar 1943
Burial	:	Long Branch Cemetery, Clay County, USA
Coordinate	:	30.1594009, -81.9649963
Description	:	Special thanks to John Dowdy: USNR WORLD WAR II Seaman 1st Class, Richard W. Whaley MIA/KIA Official date of death March 11, 1944 Hometown: Florida Service # 6367990 Awards: Purple Heart, American Campaign Medal, European - African Campaign Medal Captain: Master Lawrence Dodd MIA/KIA Ship: American Steam merchant Richard Bland Completed: 1942 - Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc, Baltimore MD Mission: US Navy Convoy SG-19 Mission Date: 10-Mar-43 Fate: A total loss by U-255 (Reinhart Reche) Location: 66.53N, 14.10W - Grid AE 2824 off Langanes, Iceland Cargo: 4000 tons of lumber Complement: 69 (34 dead and 35 survivors). Notes on event At 09.26 hours on 5 Mar, 1943, U-255 fired a spread of three torpedoes at the... Read More	Special thanks to John Dowdy: USNR WORLD WAR II Seaman 1st Class, Richard W. Whaley MIA/KIA Official date of death March 11, 1944 Hometown: Florida Service # 6367990 Awards: Purple Heart, American Campaign Medal, European - African Campaign Medal Captain: Master Lawrence Dodd MIA/KIA Ship: American Steam merchant Richard Bland Completed: 1942 - Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyards Inc, Baltimore MD Mission: US Navy Convoy SG-19 Mission Date: 10-Mar-43 Fate: A total loss by U-255 (Reinhart Reche) Location: 66.53N, 14.10W - Grid AE 2824 off Langanes, Iceland Cargo: 4000 tons of lumber Complement: 69 (34 dead and 35 survivors). Notes on event At 09.26 hours on 5 Mar, 1943, U-255 fired a spread of three torpedoes at the convoy RA-53 in 72°44N/11°27E and heard two detonations. The Executive was sunk and Richard Bland was damaged, but five days later finished off by the same U-boat. The Richard Bland was struck on the starboard side by the third torpedo at the #1 hold. The torpedo did not explode, passed through the ship and went out the port side, creating holes of eight foot on either side. It cracked the deck and ruptured the collision bulkhead and flooded the forepeak tank, causing a starboard list. The ship remained with the convoy with only a slightly reduced speed but on the night of 6 March straggled from the convoy due gale force winds and rough seas and proceeded towards Iceland. At 16.36 hours on 10 March, U-255 found the Richard Bland about 35 miles off Langanes, Iceland and fired a spread of three torpedoes, but only one torpedo struck on the port side at the #4 hatch. At 16.47 hours, a second torpedo hit on the port side at the fireroom, bending the propeller shaft, flooding the #4 and #5 holds. Soon after the torpedo hit, the ship broke in two just forward of the bridge . A coup de grâce at 16.56 hours missed, but another at 21.07 hours apparently hit the stern section, which sank at 22.03 hours. The forward section was towed to Akureyri, Iceland where the ship was declared a total loss. After the first hit, the master ordered two weather boats launched, each carrying four men, and they rode at their painters until time to abandon ship. In attempting to pass these boats around the ship, the painters were lost and the boats drifted astern. The remaining men of the nine officers, 32 crewmen and 28 armed guards (the ship was armed with one 4in, one 12lb, eight 20mm, two .50cal and two .30cal guns) had to abandon ship in two lifeboats after the second hit in rough seas. One overcrowded boat got away with only inches of freeboard, many clung to the side until they lost strength and drowned. The boat of the master is thought to have swamped and was never seen again. 27 survivors in the overcrowded boat were picked up after 13 hours by HMS Impulsive (D 11) (LtCdr E.G. Roper, DSO, DSC, RN) and landed at Seydisfjord, Iceland on 13 March. The two boats launched with four men in each were picked up the same morning, four of them landed at Reykjavik on 16 March and the others were taken to Scapa Flow. The master, five officers, 13 crewmen and 15 armed guards were lost. Seaman Redding appears on the Tablets of the Missing Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, England. He was lost March 10th 1943 & officially declared killed March 11th 1944. His memorial in Long Branch Cemetery, Clay County, Florida, is a cenotaph as his body was never recovered.

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Where is Andrew James Redding's memorial?
Andrew James Redding's memorial is located at: Long Branch Cemetery, Clay County, USA.
When did Andrew James Redding death?
Andrew James Redding death on 12 Mar 1943 in
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Latitude: 30.1594009
Longitude: -81.9649963

Family Members:

Parent

Henry Forrest Redding

(1878 - 1930)

Celia V. Wilkinson Redding

(1884 - 1979)

Siblings

William Bryant Redding

(1903 - 1964)

Horace Morgan Redding

(1906 - 2003)

(unknow - unknow)

(1911 - 1983)

(unknow - unknow)

(1916 - 1988)

Lonnie Arthur Redding Sr.

(1923 - 2019)

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