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Sub Lt. Duncan Cameron Kennedy
Royal Naval Reserve HMS Prunella
Supplement to the London Gazette 4th
October 1940. NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
HONOUR FOR
TOWNSMAN
Mentioned in Despatches Sub-Lieutenant Duncan
Cameron Kennedy, R.N.R. , has been mentioned in despatches for
"seamanship, bravery and good leadership", and his name appeared in the
"London Gazette" of October 4. Sub-Lieut, Kennedy is the son of
Mr and Mrs Sam, Kennedy, 19 South Street, He is aged 25 years, and before
the war he was a first mate with the Lyle Shipping Company.He is a
former pupil of Finnart School and was a popular member of the West-End
Baths. Sub-Lt, Kennedy had charge of one of the lifeboats after his
ship had been attacked and sunk by a u-boat in the Atlantic.(He rescued 28 people.)The ship's boats were
scattered by a fierce storm that was raging, but Mr Kennedy managed to
keep course. After the occupants of his boat had been exposed to Atlantic
weather for 3 days, they were sighted by a British flying-boat which gave
their position to a steamer, The steamer (Cassamance) picked them up and landed them in a port
in England. The survivors made him a presentation as a token of their
gratitude for his bravery and efficiency in navigating the
lifeboat. A year or two before the war, Mr Kennedy was on a ship
which rescued 32 Portuguese fisherman off the Azores during a storm.
Duncan Cameron Kennedy was treated for frost bite after the 3 days at
sea and it took it's toll on his health.
He did not want to drown at sea like his Grandfather, Duncan Cameron, who drowned at sea in 1886.
Captain Duncan Cameron Kennedy was born on 24/02/1916 in Greenock, Scotland. When Duncan was a first mate in the Merchant Navy he married Isabella Wallace Picken, an Engineer's Machinist. On 22//07/1942 at Orangefield Baptist Church Greenock, Scotland.