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WILLIAM R. WEIS JR.

Willaim R. Weis Jr. was a deck cadet on the ship the SS Nathaniel Hawthorne. The master of this ship was Richard L. Brennan. The ship weighed 7176 gross tons. She was carrying 7576 tones of Bauxite to New York, from Georgetown, British New Guiana. A torpedo from a German U-Boat sunk the ship. This happened forty miles off Isla de Margarita on November 7, 1942. On the ship forty crewmen, ten armed guards, and two passengers died.