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astrolabe newsletter of the Turks & Caicos National Museum Dawn Irvine was nine when she left for East Caicos. Little is know other than she married Melvin Thompson in March 1945. Dawn is alive today. James Irvine, or “King” as he was known as a child, was 18 months old when he went to the East Caicos. He suffered from infected insect bites and the lack of appropriate food while there. James worked as a policeman in Torrence, California and later in the insurance business in Fresno. Little else is known about James. James and Grace Lake were the last people on East Caicos. Grace left in 1942—James left 14 months later. Both returned to Massachusetts, their home before moving out West. Sometime between 1943 and 1949, Grace conveyed ownership of the land she had inherited on East Caicos to her daughter Alice Christensen, a Bermudian by marriage. James Lake may have returned to the insurance business when he returned home in 1943, however, he would have been 72 years old. Both James and Grace died in 1950 and were buried near Boston. Ned Read returned to California in April 1940. He went to trade school and then worked as a riveter at Lockheed Martin. In 1941 he enlisted in the Army Air Corps. Ned met his wife-to-be, Cindy Morgan, while stationed in Ohio—they were married in 1943. After the military, Ned completed his education at Ohio State University, obtaining an engineering degree. Ned and Cindy moved back to California where Ned worked at Lockheed as an efficiency engineer. After he retired, they moved to Oregon and raised Christmas trees and built energy-efficient homes. Later, looking for a warmer climate, the couple moved to a retirement community in Southern California. Cindy passed away in 2008. Ned died in 2015. Ned Read’s granddaughter said that her grandfather did not talk about his experience on East Caicos, perhaps because it was such an unpleasant one. She said that he despised seafood for the rest of his life. The Lorntsen family left East Caicos by August 7, 1940, leaving Grace and James Lake the only remaining members of the group on the island. Mr. and Mrs. Lorntsen and their daughter traveled to Nassau where they took up permanent residency. They remained there until at least 1959 when Andreas passed away. In 1941, Sam Robinson of Grand Turk wrote in a letter to the Irvine family that Olaf, the Lorntsen’s 22-year-old son, was working on a Norwegian salt vessel, a job he probably secured before his parents left East Caicos. Olaf registered for the draft in New York in February, 1942. The other six members of the East Caicos Trading Company returned to California after leaving East Caicos. The men registered for the military and most served in the army. Later, many of them returned to the professions they left behind when they departed California on January 17, 1940 for what they thought would be a new life on a deserted island in the British West Indies. Little else is known about them. a READ FAMILY PHOTOGRAPH Author Jeffrey Dodge has published a fascinating book detailing the story of the modern Crusoes entitled, Californians Seek Utopia on East Caicos Island. If you are interested in a copy, please contact Mr. Dodge at tinqua1512@gmail.com. These are Cindy and Ned Read as newlyweds in 1943. They married after Ned’s return from East Caicos. 66 www.timespub.tc
astrolabe newsletter of the Turks & Caicos National Museum The German submarine U-558 was a Type VIIC U-boat in the service of Nazi Germany’s Kriegsmarine during World War II. She sank 19 merchant ships (including the Fauna) and military vessels totalling nearly 100,000 tons before being sunk by bombers in July 1943. TCI in World War II The Fauna, Part II, 1942 By Captain Eric Wiberg In the Summer 2020 issue of the Astrolabe, the author detailed the first part of the tale of the Fauna, a 1,272-ton Dutch steamship. The Fauna left New York on May 6, 1942 destined for Grand Turk with a crew of 29 men and a load of cargo, including 23 bags of mail! She was less than a day from her destination on May 17 when she was found and intercepted by U-558 under Güther Krech in the Caicos Passage. The boat was torpedoed and eventually sunk at 12:42 AM on May 18. A total of 27 men survived and made their way by lifeboat to the unpopulated island of West Caicos at 11:00 AM on May 18. Finding no one there, they set off to the north, rounded Northwest Point, and were eventually discovered by two local fishing boats. Captain Ralph A. Ewing brought half of the crew back to Blue Hills on his schooner Sister E. (also known as The Sisters), while Captain William Ewing returned with the rest of the crew aboard his boat The Flirt. The men were found in poor condition and were cared for by Islanders. The complete first part is available at: https://www.timespub.tc/2020/06/tci-in-world-war-ii/ Times of the Islands Winter 2020-21 67
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