Granger,+Squire

__Granger, Squire__ Seaman O.S. no D/JX 254877, Royal Navy, H.M.S. "Stanley, This was a WW1 four stack destroyer, ex United staes Navy, originally name U.S.S. "McCalla". The ship was transferred to the Royal Navy from the U.S. Navy on the 9th Sept 1940. These destroyers, were classed by the Royal Navy as Town Class Destroyers, and given names of towns . An escort destroyer on convoy Gibraltar 76 (Gibraltar to U.K). Sunk by U574 (Deitrich Gengelback) on the 19th December 1941, on their first patrol. The "Stanley " when hit by torpedoes blew up in a sheet of flame several hundred feet high . The U574 was brought to the surface by depth charges, and rammed and sunk by H.M.S. "Stork. This ship and H.M.S. "Samphire" subsequently picked up 16 of the U.boat crew and 28 survivors of the "Stanley Only son of Squire & Elsie Granger, Morning St, Ingrow, Keighley. He Joined the Navy in 1941, and was previously employed by Robert Clough & Co, Ingrow. He died on the 19th December 1941, age 20. Ref - Keighley News 10th Jan 1942. (Photo) U.Boat.Net website On the Keighley WW2 Memorial Plate, his name is given as GRAINGER S. Commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, Panel 49, Col 1