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ROSCOE J. PRICKETT JR.

    Cadet Roscoe Prickett was a deck cadet aboard the SS J. Pinckey Henderson.   The SS J. Pinckney Henderson,  a 7176 gross ton liberty ship, when it collided with the  Panamanian flag Tanker J. H. Senior.  The vessals were part of convoy HX-252, which was bound from New York to Liverpool.  The SS J. Pinckney Henderson was carrying a cargo of Magnesium, glycerine, resin, oil, and wax.  The cargo could not have been a worse combiniation; the resulting fire reduced a crew of forty merchant seamen and twenty-seven navy guards to four.  Only two seaman and two navy guardsmen survived.  Out of the crew on the J.H. Senior, only six navy guardsmen survived.