London II

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1941 - On 21 March 1941 the London II, en route from Manchester to Cardiff with a cargo of steel billets and scrap metal, was bombed southwest of the Helwick lightship. Four of the crew of eighteen were killed, the rest abaondoned the burning ship which drifted and sank six miles south-west of Mumbles Head.9ref 173)

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