US Navy Armed Guard
SS Pan Rhode Island
SS Horace Binney
C-3
Atlantic
World War II
CCC (1936-1937)
Louis Marrale
Galloway, West Virginia
Inducted 30 June 1944
Discharged 18 Octobet 1945
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Served in Atlantic
CCC (Backbone Mtn.)
Bainbridge, Md. (basic)
Little Creek, Va.
Peir 92, Brooklyn NY
Atlantic Convoy Duty

He was assigned as Armed Guard in Trans-Atlantic convoy duty, in the Med., and North Sea. Freighter Horace Binney, in convoy TAM 62, is damaged by mine 15 miles off Ostend, Belgium, 51°21'N, 02°27'E; there are no fatalities among the ship's complement (which includes a 36-man Armed Guard). The ship is towed to Deal, England and beached, where she is later written off as a total loss in North Sea on May 8, 1945.