Samuel Norman Batson Haddow – Merchant Navy, S.S. British Monarch
Apprentice Samuel Norman Batson Haddow – Merchant Navy, S.S. British Monarch Early Life Samuel Norman Batson Haddow was born in 1922 in Glasgow, Scotland. He was the son of Hugh Haddow and Margaret C. B. Haddow . Service in the Merchant Navy S.S. British Monarch credit - wrecksite Samuel served with the Merchant Navy during the Second World War. He held the rank of Apprentice aboard the S.S. British Monarch . The S.S. British Monarch British Monarch was a 5,661‑ton cargo steamer , completed in 1923 by Napier & Miller of Old Kilpatrick (Yard No. 236) for the Monarch S.S. Co. (Raeburn & Verel) of Glasgow. On 19 th June 1940 , while on passage from Bougie to Glasgow with a cargo of iron ore, British Monarch was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U‑48 . All 40 members of her crew were lost. Loss of Apprentice Haddow Samuel was among those who perished when the British Monarch was sunk. He was just eighteen years old, one of many young Merchan...
