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JAMES A. HOPE

            James Hope was a midshipman who attended the United States Merchant Marine Academy majoring in the deck side of things, and died while defending his nation aboard the SS Edward B. Dudley during WWII.  The liberty ship that midshipman Hope was torpedoed by the German Submarine, U-615 on April 11, 1943 in the North Atlantic while en route to Convoy HX-232 from New York to port in the United Kingdom.  The SS Edward B. Dudley had straggled from the convoy and was never heard from again.  The ship carried a crew of 42 men and 27 Navy Armed Guard.  There were no survivors.   Later the commander of the U-615 reported that he hit the ship with a torpedo at 1430 sub time on April 10, but the torpedo did not explode.  He sank the ship the next day with three additional torpedoes.  The U-615 was bombed and sunk south of Curaco on August 6, 1943, a mere four months after is sank the SS Edward B. Dudley.

            The SS Edward B. Dudley’s homeport was in San Francisco, Calf.  It was owned by the Bulk Carriers Corp. in New York, New York.  The master of the ship was Gibson Douglas Hillary, who was lost at sea.