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John Ewens
Royal Navy HMS Newcastle
from:Skinningrove
My Grandad, John Ewens was a Gun Layer on HMS Newcastle (Pennant No. C76). The ship was torpeded on 15th June 1942 in the Med by Torpedo Boat S-56. She made her way via Ceylon, S.Africa and Brazil to Brooklyn N Y where she had a new bow fitted in 1943. She was scrapped in 1959 in Faslane, Scotland.