Able Seaman D/JX 193758 Joseph Pennington

Family details:
Son of Charles and Elizabeth Pennington, of St. Helens, Lancashire.

Census details:
1939 Register. Unfortunately Joseph and one other members of the household are redacted. Widowed mother Elizabeth Pennington born 10/09/1878 an Unpaid Domestic, sister Olive Pennington born 10/12/1912 an Unpaid Domestic and brother James Pennington born 13/12/1911 a Motor Fitter are living at 69 Chapel Street, St Helens. The address seems to be the home of Martha Ann Rigby born 09/11/1889 an Unpaid Domestic.

[b]HMS Itchen (K227)[/b] At 0201 hours on 23 September 1943 the German submarine U-666 fired a Gnat torpedo, which hit HMS Itchen (Cdr. [i]Clement Edward[/i] Bridgman, DSO, RNR) after 1 minute and 10 seconds. The frigates forward magazine blew up and Debris from the vessel was later found on the conning tower of the U-boat and on HMCS Morden. 227 men, including survivors from other ships, went down with HMS Itchen. There were only 3 survivors, 2 from Itchen and one from the Canadian destroyer HMCS St.Croix hit by U-boat. [br] [br] [pic]imgs/WW2_misc/WW2_193758_Pennington.jpg[/pic] [br] [center][pic2]imgs/sppics/Pennington_Plymouth.jpg[/pic2][/center][caption]The panel on the Plymouth Naval Memorial bearing the name of Able Seaman Joseph Pennington[/caption]