Cardiff Boys

[Administrator]

In memory of two Cardiff lads who lost their lives aboard the SS Wildestone sunk by enemy action 17 - 18 November 1942.

Alfred Page, Galley Boy, son of William and Julia Page, of Cardiff was just 14 years old and Bernard Peter Sexton, Mess Room Boy, son of Charles and Mary Sexton, of Adamsdown, Cardiff who was also 14 years old.

Also in memory of William Storm (1904-1942); master of the SS Widestone disappeared in a North Atlantic convoy sailing from Milford Haven to Newfoundland following an explosion.


Further information available at

freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~stormrhb/steamships.htm

[Billy McGee]

Cargo ship Widestone, 3,192grt, (Turnbull, Scott & Co.) had sailed from Cardiff and Milford Haven with a cargo of coal for St John’s, Newfoundland and joined up with the New York bound 28 ship Convoy ON-144 which sailed from Liverpool on the 7th November 1942. On the 15th November U-521 part of a patrol line of 13 U-boats sights the Convoy and makes an unsuccessful attack. Due to bad weather the Convoy is lost and then found again on two separate occasions. On the 17th November 10 U-boats attack again and the Widestone is torpedoed by U-184 South-East of Cape Farewell and sinks in position 54’ 30N 37’ 10W. The Captain, William Storm, all 34 crew and her 7 DEMS gunners were lost.