Herbert Arthur Stonehouse

Herbert Arthur Stonehouse (1909-1984) was a British Royal Navy Reserve officer who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and bar for his service escorting convoys during the Second World War and who in 1943 sank the German submarine U-192.

[3] Stonehouse was registered as a merchant seaman in Liverpool in 1930 and shown with a rating of QM (Quarter Master).

His card shows the name El Paraguayo,[4] a meat carrier believed at the time of her launch in 1911 to be the largest refrigerated vessel constructed with a capacity of over 405,000 cubic feet.

[7] On 6 May 1943, Loosestrife sank the German submarine U-192 in the North Atlantic south-east of Cape Farewell using depth charges.

[8] Stonehouse was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross on 19 October 1943[9] and bar on 19 June 1945.