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Distinguished Service Cross
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Captain Charles Vermulen, SS Arendal, registered in
Liverpool and owned by two Liverpool businessmen Mr
Roberts and Mr Brining. This ship left Liverpool in
early September, 1917, on its way to Marseilles, but
encountered U-63 on September 17, 1917, not far from
Gibraltar and was eventually sunk