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| 2842 | GERSON, Irving B. My Own Experiences of the Wreck. xvi, 61p., illus. Bizerta: [author], 1944.
A detailed and very personal account of the sinking of LST 349 on the coast of Sicily in a storm. |
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| 2843 | GIBSON, Walter. The Boat. 96p., illus. London: W. H. Allen; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
The author survived the torpedoing of the Rooseboom on 1st March 1942, after evacuation from Sumatra. His lifeboat was 26 days adrift in the Indian Ocean and there were only four survivors. A second edition was published in 1973. |
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| 2844 | GILCHRIST, Derek C. Blue Hell. 126p., illus. London: Heath Cranton, 1943.
The City of Shanghai was sunk on 10 May 1941, while proceeding alone in the South Atlantic. The author took command of a lifeboat, which was only found by another merchantman after 30 days. |
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| 2845 | GROSSMITH, Frederick. The Sinking of the Laconia: A Tragedy in the Battle of the Atlantic. xi, [9], 236p., bibliog., illus., index. Stamford: Watkins, 1994. ISBN: 1871615682.
The tragic tale of the sinking of a ship full of Italian POWs and of the attempt to rescue the survivors. |
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| 2846 | HAWKINS, Doris M. Atlantic Torpedo: The Record of 27 Days in an Open Boat Following a U-Boat Sinking, by the Only Woman Survivor. 48p. London: Gollancz, 1943.
Her ship was sunk in the South Atlantic and her boatload of survivors eventually reached Liberia. She aims to bring home to readers the horror and suffering of the sea war. Reprinted by Chivers in 1969. |
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| 2847 | HICKEY, Des, & SMITH, Gus. The Star of Shame: The Secret Voyage of the Arandora Star. 240p., illus. Dublin, Oh.: Madison, 1989. ISBN: 1870862015.
The tale of the sinking of the Arandora Star by U 47 while en route to Canada with POWs and internees. |
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| 2848 | HUNTER, J. H. Adrift: The Story of Twenty Days on a Raft in the South Atlantic as Told to J. H. Hunter. 125, [3]p., illus. New York; Toronto: Evangelical, 1943.
The religious tale of a shipwrecked missionary, Ethel Bell. Her ship s.s. West Lashaway was torpedoed on 30 August 1942 and her boatload of survivors rescued on September 18 by the destroyer Vimy which first shelled them, in mistake for a submarine. See also her son's recollections. |
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| 2849 | HUTCHINSON, Roger. Polly: The True Story behind Whisky Galore. 144p., bibliog., illus. Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1990. ISBN: 1840180714.
In 1941 the s.s. Politician ran aground in the Sound of Eriskay with a cargo which included nearly a quarter of a million bottles of whisky. Later celebrated in book and film by Compton Mackenzie as 'Whisky Galore', this is the true and strange tale of what really happened. |
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| 2850 | HUXLEY, Elspeth. Atlantic Ordeal: The Story of Mary Cornish. [v], 87p., illus. London: Chatto & Windus, 1941; New York: Harper, 1942.
The City of Benares was torpedoed while carrying evacuee children. Cornish spent over a week in an open boat with some of them before being rescued. |
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| 2851 | JONES, David C. The Enemy We Killed, My Friend. 136p., bibliog., illus. Llandysul: Gomer, 1999. ISBN: 1859026249.
The author was a young cadet on the s.s. Quebec City sunk in the South Atlantic in September 1942. An account of the sinking and the survivors' journey to Liberia and subsequent rescue. |
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| 2852 | JONES, Guy Pearce. Two Survived: The Story of Tapscott and Widdicombe, Who Were Torpedoed in Mid-Atlantic and Survived Seventy Days in an Open Boat, as Narrated to Guy Pearce Jones. 199p., illus. London: Hamilton, 1941.
The Anglo-Saxon was sunk by a German raider in the South Atlantic on 21 August 1940. The two survivors struggled over 2,000 miles to the Bahamas and safety. |
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| 2853 | LOANE, Bill. The Koolama Incident. viii, 165p., bibliog., illus. East Perth, WA: CDC Graphics, 1992. ISBN: 0646081004. In February 1942 the Koolama was bombed by Japanese floatplanes and beached off the Australian coast of the Kimberley Plateau. Guided by Aborigines, ninety-three men walked 160 kilometres back to civilisation. A tale of gruelling courage. Reprinted by Rosenberg in 2004 (ISBN: 187705819X). |
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| 2854 | McCANCE, R. A. The Hazards to Men in Ships Lost at Sea 1940–44 (Medical Research Council. Special Report Series, no. 291). 44p., bibliog. London: HMSO, 1956.
An analysis of 448 wartime sinkings and the factors influencing death or disablement, based on survivor's reports. |
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| 2855 | McCARTNEY, Innes. Lost Patrols: Submarine Wrecks of the English Channel. 183p., bibliog., illus., index. Penzance: Periscope, 2003. ISBN: 1904381049.
A geographically arranged list of all the submarine wrecks – mainly German – positively identified by divers, with some account of the circumstances of the sinking. |
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| 2856 | McCUNN, Ruthanne Lum. Sole Survivor. 238p. San Francisco: Design Enterprises of S.F., 1985. ISBN: 0807071390.
Poon Lim was Second Steward on the s.s. Benlomond sunk in the South Atlantic on 23 November 23 1942. He was the sole survivor and suffered a record 133 days on a raft before rescue by Brazilian fishermen. This is a fictional (and fanciful) recreation of this feat of endurance. |
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| 2857 | McLOUGHLIN, Jim with GIBB, David. One Common Enemy. The Laconia Incident: A Survivor's Memoir. [v], 200p. Adelaide: Wakefield Press; London: National Maritime Museum, 2007. ISBN: 094806577X.
He joined the RN early in 1939 and served on Valiant. Drafted home in 1942 he was on Laconia when she was sunk and was badly traumatised by the event. |
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| 2858 | MARSH, John, & ANSON, Lyman. Skeleton Coast. xi, 276p., illus. London: Hodder & Stoughton; New York: Dodd Mead, 1958.
An uncensored expansion of Marsh's wartime work, on the sinking of the Dunedin Star. The co-author has popularised and developed the story from new sources and his imagination. |
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| 2859 | MARSH, John H. Skeleton Coast. 148p., illus., index. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1944.
When the Dunedin Star was mined off Namibia in November 1942, she was beached and the passengers and crew got ashore. This is the story of their rescue and the chapter of accidents surrounding it. Five editions had appeared by September 1945. |
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| 2860 | MENZIES, Janet. Children of the Doomed Voyage. 208p., illus. Chichester: Wiley, 2005. ISBN: 0470018879.
Spun off from a television documentary, this account is based on interviews with the child survivors of the sinking of the Benares. |
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| 2861 | MILLER, A. Donald. A Ship! A Ship! 31p. London: The Mission to Lepers, 1943.
An interesting account by a missionary of the aftermath of the sinking of the s.s. City of Cairo when survivors spent two weeks in open boats. Compare this with Usher. By at least the sixteenth (post-war) impression, a preface added some facts and names concealed or changed by wartime censorship. |
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