Joseph Carrigan

Description

Killed in WWII (machine gunned in lifeboat after the torpedoing of S.S. Ario)

U-Boat U-158 that torpedoed SS Ario, was herself laid down on Nov.1, 1940, and commissioned on Sept 25, 1941 commanded by Kapitanleutnant Erwin Kostin. He sank 12 ships to total 101,321 tons, damaged 2 others of 15,164 tons.

U-158 was herself sunk on June 30, 1942 off the Bermudas by a US Mariner aircraft USN VP-74. All the 54 crew of U-158 were killed.

SS Ario was finally sunk by gunfire from U-161. This boat was sunk by another Mariner Aircraft in the So Atlantic on Sept 27, 1943 and all 53 of the U-Boats crew were killed.