Record #:

10733

Author(s):

Gillespie, Tom

Abstract:

The German submarine U-558 sank HMS Bedfordshire, a British naval ship on submarine patrol duty off Ocracoke Island in May 1942, killing thirty-seven British sailors. Four bodies from the ship washed up on Ocracoke Island. Residents buried them in a small plot. Later, the United States ceded the land to England in perpetuity for one dollar.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 76 Issue 9, Feb 2009, p31-32, 34-35, il, por

Subject(s):

HMS BEDFORDSHIRE (Ship); Ocracoke--History; Ocracoke--Cemeteries; North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations