Wexford men in the Merchant Navy

“My father Michael Kennedy was in the merchant navy and his ship was torpedoed. He was from Slade, Co. Wexford, Ireland and they would all have been seafaring people. According to my brother, my father was taken prisoner after his ship was torpedoed and he probably didn’t make it back from Germany until after the war was over. We think he was probably around 19 or 20 years old when he joined up. I…