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Archibald Dickson | |
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| Born | 1892 |
| Died | 1939 |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Sea captain |
Archibald Dickson was a British seaman who was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1892 and died in the North Sea in 1939. [1] [2] He was a hero of the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
Dickson was the captain of the SS Stanbrook , a British merchant ship that rescued almost 3,000 Spanish Republicans in the port of Alicante, in Spain, during the night of 28 March 1939. [3]
On November 18, 1939, at the beginning of World War II, the SS Stanbrook was torpedoed in the North Sea by U-boat U-57. Archibald Dickson died on board.
His memory is celebrated by the cities of Cardiff [4] and Alicante, in Spain, and by the Tower Hill Memorial in London. [5]
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