Colin Boyd has provided the following:
Empire Dew - GRT 7005 - Built 1941; 12/6/1941. Torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-68 (Schultze) in the Atlantic N. of the Azores in position 51.09N 30.16W while sailing independently on a voyage from the Tyne to Father Point, New Brunswick, for orders in ballast, dispersed from convoy OG64. 23 crew lost.
British and Commonwealth Merchant Ship losses to Axis Submarines, 1939-1945; by Alan Tennent; 2001; Sutton Publishing Ltd.; ISBN 0750927607
William Bray is remembered at Earsdon on E3.01 and E3.02 on our List of Ships’ crews
