My father, Edwin Booth Newman, was a coxswain with the first WW2 AG crew to board a merchant ship, SS Dunboyne, but the ship had to return to port for repairs. My father told me in some detail of a mutiny by some of the merchant crew when it appeared that the ship was not seaworthy and that he and the rest of the gun crew were thrown in jail for a while after the ship returned . Have any veterans or their descendants heard other accounts of this incident?
Re: Armed Guard Gun Crew 1E
Posted by Charles A. Lloyd-Armed Guard on June 18, 2013, 7:43 pm, in reply to "Armed Guard Gun Crew 1E"
Ed Newman, I attended your dad's funeral in Wilmington, N.C. He had some great history of his time in service in a note book. I hope you saved it. I am sending things to the S.S. JOHN W. BROWN Liberty Ship in Baltimore. E-Mail me and I will call you. 919-570-0909. Your dad story should be told. Did you save the drawing he did of the ship he drew? calloyd-Chairman