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Finlay Macintyre
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Finlay Black Macintyre (1889 - 20 June 1940) was a sea captain in the Merchant navy. Macintyre gained his certificate of competency as master of a foreign-going steamship on 17 June 1925. Fourteen years later, he was captain of the cargo ship during World War II when, on 20 June 1940, it was torpedoed by German submarine in the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland, south west of Barra Head, Scotland, at . The ship sank before the rescue ships reached her. The crew took to lifeboats and liferafts but one of them was swamped at launch, killing Macintyre, the second engineer and the cook. Personal life Macintyre was born in 1889 in Govan, Glasgow, to William (1851 - 1900) and Mary Macintyre (née Black) (1856 - 1926). He was one of the couple's six children. He married Hilda Morrison, with whom he had one child, a son Eric William Macintyre born on 3 May 1923. |
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