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| 2822 | BARKER, Ralph. Children of the Benares: A War Crime and Its Victims. ix, 172p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Methuen, 1987. ISBN: 0586208232.
The City of Benares was sunk while carrying evacuees. Although the results of the attack shocked Britain, there was bungling and incompetence on the British side. |
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| 2823 | BARKER, Ralph. Goodnight, Sorry for Sinking You: The Story of the s.s City of Cairo. 251p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Collins, 1984. ISBN: 0002164647.
City of Cairo was sunk by U 68 while alone in the South Atlantic in November 1942. This tells the epic story of the survivors. |
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| 2824 | BEASANT, John. Stalin's Silver. [vi], 216p., illus., index. London: Bloomsbury, 1995; New York: St Martin's Press, 1999. ISBN: 0747523444.
A wartime mystery. The s.s. John Barry was sunk off Oman by U 859 in 1944 while carrying huge quantities of unacknowledged silver. Soon after U 859 was sunk in the Malacca Strait and it is claimed may have been carrying uranium to Japan. An interesting tale of sinkings, salvage, suspicion, and skulduggery. |
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| 2825 | BELL, Robert W., & LOCKERBIE, D. Bruce. In Peril on the Sea: A Personal Remembrance. 285p., illus. New York: Doubleday, 1984. ISBN: 038518378X.x
Bell was an 11-year-old missionary's son on the torpedoed s.s. West Lashaway sunk in August 1942. His mother's story and their privations were recorded at the time. These are his recollections with some account of the intervening years and his attempts to meet crew members of U 66. |
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| 2826 | BENNETT, G. H., & BENNETT, R. Survivors: British Merchant Seamen in the Second World War. xv, 287p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Hambledon, 1999. ISBN: 1852851821.
A fascinating and unusual approach which looks at what happened after sinking of merchantmen. |
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| 2827 | BURNS, Alan. Sunderland Mariners Lost at Sea 1939-1945. [v], 99, [10]p., illus., index. Sunderland: Ouseburn, 2007. ISBN: 0955544416.
Somewhat confusingly arranged. A chronological list of ships sunk or damaged and in which Sunderland seaman were killed. Confusingly it also includes the names of some men who survived the war, but who may have been discharged injured. Gives a brief account of the circumstances of the action or sinking in each case. |
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| 2828 | COLLINGS, Peter. Sunderland to Sha'ab Ali: The Story of the Thistlegorm 111p., illus. Co Durham: Deeplens Publishing, 2008. ISBN: 0951168177.
Built in 1940 she was sunk in the Red Sea in 1941 and is now a favourite dive site. Her full history is covered. |
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| 2829 | CONSTANT, Alan R. Sinking of the Montrolite: An Internet Odyssey of Discovery Uncovering the Story of a Fateful Night in 1942. [v], 96p., bibliog., illus. Tobermory, Ont.: author, 2002. ISBN: 0968927114.
An interesting reflection on how he used the Internet to track down the fate of two great uncles lost when the ship was torpedoed in the Caribbean. |
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| 2830 | COOKE, Kenneth. What Cares the Sea? 168p., illus. London: Hutchinson; New York: McGraw Hill, 1960.
The author was one of the two survivors of the Lulworth Hill, torpedoed in the South Atlantic on 19 March 1943. While proceeding independently from Cape Town, she was sunk by a U-boat and her 14 survivors dwindled slowly until only two were alive when rescued after 50 days by the destroyer Rapid. |
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| 2831 | COUTTS, Ben. A Scotsman's War. x, 102p., illus. Edinburgh: Mercat, 1995. ISBN: 1873644477.
War memoirs of a Royal Artillery gunner. A significant chunk of the book is devoted to his sinking in Laconia and subsequent rescue. |
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| 2832 | CRABB, Brian James. Beyond the Call of Duty: The Loss of British Commonwealth Mercantile and Service Women at Sea During the Second World War. x, 310p., bibliog., illus., index. Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2006. ISBN: 1900289660.
Covers a completely neglected area. As well as women in the armed services, others served in on board merchantmen in roles as varied as hairdressers and engineers. |
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| 2833 | CRABB, Brian James. Passage to Destiny: The Sinking of the s.s Khedive Ismael in the Sea War against Japan. viii, 160p., bibliog., illus., index. Stamford: Watkins, 1997. ISBN: 1900289105.
The first full account of the sinking in February 1944 of this troopship from convoy KR8 by the Japanese submarine I 27. 1,300 died in the attack 100 miles north-northwest of Addu Atoll. |
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| 2834 | CRITCHLEY, Macdonald. Shipwreck-Survivors: A Medical Study. vii, [8], 119p., bibliog., illus. London: Churchill, 1943.
A naval surgeon reviews the scant evidence on clinical problems associated with shipwreck and adds his own observations on the cases of 279 WWII survivors. Draws practical conclusions for future use. First delivered as the 1942 Bradshaw Lecture. |
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| 2835 | DAWSON, Jeff. Dead Reckoning: The Dunedin Star Disaster. 320p., illus. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. ISBN: 0297848798.
Three weeks into her voyage, her hull mysteriously holed, Dunedin Star ran aground off Namibia's infamous Skeleton Coast. A skilful retelling of her voyage and the fate of the survivors. |
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| 2836 | DUFFUS, Louis. Beyond the Laager. 168p., illus. London: Hurst & Blackett, [1947].
Wartime stories of South Africans overseas. The first concerns AB Tony Large who was sunk in Cornwall and rescued, only to be sunk again in the Laconia. This time he survived 39 days in an open boat. |
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| 2837 | DUFFY, James P. The Sinking of the Laconia and the U-boat War: Disaster in the mid-Atlantic. 129p., bibliog., illus., index. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2009. ISBN: 9780275993641.
Documents the controversial 1942 sinking of the liner and the rescue operations that were initiated by the same German U-Boat that fired the torpedoes. Details the moral and procedural complexities of confrontations between military and merchant forces, especially in regards to ships such as the Laconia, transporting POWs and operating under the flags of the Red Cross. The consequences of the sinking, which resulted in indictments at the Nuremburg Trials, are also analysed. |
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| 2838 | EDGES, George. Diary of 35 Days Spent in a Lifeboat with Fourteen Men on the Atlantic after Torpedoing, August 10th to September 13th 1942. 16p. [n.p.: author, 1942]. A privately printed copy of the original log kept in the lifeboat by the Chief Officer of the Blue Funnel motor ship Medon. She was sunk in August 1942 in the South Atlantic by an Italian submarine while sailing independently. |
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| 2839 | EDGELL, H.A.R. Down to the Sea in Ships. [35p.], illus. [Horning: author, 1995].
The sinking of s.s. Quebec City by U 156 in 1942. |
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| 2840 | EDWARDS, Bernard. Blood and Bushido: Japanese Atrocities at Sea 1941–1945. 256p., bibliog., illus., index. Upton upon Severn: Self Publishing Association, 1991. ISBN: 185421134X.
Examines a dozen attacks on survivors of merchant ships sunk in the Indian Ocean as well as the naval Sutlej. Reprinted by Images of Worcester and Brick Tower of New York in 1997(ISBN: 1883283183). |
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| 2841 | FOWLER, Elizabeth. Standing Room Only: The Personal and Moving Record of a Woman's Experience during Ten Days in a Lifeboat with Thirty-Four Men after Their Ship Had Been Torpedoed by a German Submarine. 195p., frontis. New York: Dodd Mead, 1944.
Another harrowing tale of the survivors from a torpedoed ship. |
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