Message 4 - HMS Curacoa Tragedy Posted on: 06 June 2005 by irisnuttgens. My great uncle, George Westray, was the youngest seaman, aged 19, on the Curacoa and sadly did not survive the tradegy.

On 2nd October 1942 my father was serving on the British Light Cruiser HMS Curacoa. She was escorting the Queen Mary, which was carrying 15,000 United States troops onboard, and sailing ahead of ...

Throughout the war, she transported 800,000 troops to Europe and in 1942 while carrying 10,000 troops she collided with her escort, the HMS Curacoa slicing it in half.

The bark Venus, which arrived yesterday from Curacoa, brings 28 packages of silver -- about $50,000 -- and a valuable cargo of furs and cochineal. The Venus left Curacoa on the 22d ult.

THE SUMPTER COALING AT CURACOA. Share full article. Aug. 14, 1861. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from August 14, 1861, Page 82 Buy Reprints.

Message 4 - HMS Curacoa Tragedy Posted on: 06 June 2005 by irisnuttgens. My great uncle, George Westray, was the youngest seaman, aged 19, on the Curacoa and sadly did not survive the tradegy.