Archibald Dickson was a British seaman who was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1892 and died in the North Sea in 1939. He was a hero of the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

Naval career
Dickson was the captain of the SS Stanbrook, a British merchant ship that rescued almost 3,000 Spanish Republicans in the port of Alicante, in Spain, during the night of 28 March 1939.

On November 18, 1939, at the beginning of World War II, the SS Stanbrook was torpedoed in the North Sea by U-boat Ou-57. Archibald Dickson died on board.

Memory

His memory is celebrated by the cities of Cardiff and Alicante, in Spain, and by the Tower Hill Memorial in London.

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1939 deaths
Sea captains
Deaths due to shipwreck at sea
British civilians killed in World War II
British people of the Spanish Civil War
Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials
1892 births