Luling Memorial

Memorial to the Seaman on MV Luling Indian Ocean, 1945
	This memorial is dedicated to the seaman who died on the MV Luling.

*MV Luling (South Shields)*
The Luling had sailed early in March, 1945 from South Shields, to Trincomalee, where the tanker was to join a naval assault force for the Malayan beachhead landings. En route, they encountered a typhoon with heavy seas in the Indian Ocean. One of the seaman, Tommy, was swept overboard. The ship dropped out of the convoy and pattern-searched the seas for six hours, but he was never found. The accident happened on Friday, April 27, 1945, in the Indian Ocean, and is described in The Sampan Girl.
Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon, U.K., Panel 93, column 3
Cecil Thomas ALCHORNE (age18) Able Seaman Royal Navy (D/JX 559894), from HMS President III, lost in MV Luling Son of Mrs. F. Allchorne; husband of Ida L. M. Allchorne, of Carrington, Nottinghamshire.