Jacob Steinberg

Able Seaman Jacob Eli Steinberg was an English sailor of the Royal Navy who died during the Second World War.
He was born on 31 May 1907, in Bristol, the son of Russian-born parents Joseph, a tailor by profession, and Annie Steinberg. In 1939, Steinberg was working as a tailor while serving with the Auxiliary Fire Service.Ancestry.com. 1939 England and Wales Register [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018. 
Steinberg died on 15 September 1941, when the German U-boat U-94 torpedoed and sunk the steam merchant SS Empire Eland, with the loss of her 37 crew. He had been assigned from the shore base HMS President III as a DEMS gunner.Royal Navy casualties, killed and died, September 1941, naval-history.net. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Steinberg, Jacob Eli, cwgc.org. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
Category:1907 births
Category:1941 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of Russian descent
Category:Royal Navy
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Plymouth Naval Memorial
Category:Able Seamen