Service Record
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From
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To
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Rotherwick Castle
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6/1963
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7/1963
In Lourenco Marques
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Died
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21 July 1963
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Email Received 18 May 2020
My uncle, Joseph Henry Higgins, died aged 22 in a boiler room explosion on Rotherwick Castle in, I believe, July 1963. He was buried abroad.
My mother is the only one left (aged 84) and has very little knowledge of the event - she says a representative from the company came to talk to her mother (Mrs J M Higgins), but she was out and he never came back - none of the family ever got to visit his grave.
Is there anything at all you could let her see?
The original National Archive document is "attached" - the entry is 3rd line from bottom on lefthand side of the page.
Interesting how many other deaths there are onboard UC ships.
The entries in red ink are passengers.