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- Warwickshire Libraries Heritage and Trading Standards
- People in story:Ìý
- William Spear
- Location of story:Ìý
- 17 and a half miles off Trevose Head
- Background to story:Ìý
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:Ìý
- A4166507
- Contributed on:Ìý
- 08 June 2005
Warwship H.M.S. Warwick was adopted by the Warwick Borough Council and the Town in 1942.
In February 1944 H.M.S.Warwick was sunk off the Cornish coast whilst on convoy duty.
.Sixty Six crew members were lost when this happened. The number of survivors was not known for certain at the time, but one of them William Spear, the Chief Yeoman,Signals Officer was rescued by a Belgiam Fishing Trawler, The Lady Luck.
Some forty years after this William Spear had the idea to set up a reunion for any survivours by advertising in the Navy News and contacting Charlie Chester, who ran Radio Soap Box on a Sunday afternoon. The result of this hunt for survivours was that in 1984 a Reunion Service was held at St Merryn Church, Padstow, Cornwall for some one hundred survivours and relatives who laid wreaths upon the Parish War Memorial and the H.M.S.Warwick graves.
During the course of this reunion the crew of the Padstow lifeboat took groups to the position of the wreck to lay wreaths.
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