Post by Administrator on Sept 17, 2019 8:35:09 GMT
On This Day : 17 September 1940
Her Name Was “City of Benares”, “Tregenna”, “Crown Arun”.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-boat U-48 torpedoes and sinks the SS City of Benares, killing 77 British children and 248 crew en-route to Canada. The ship, part of convoy OB-213, had departed Liverpool, England, for Montreal and Quebec City, Canada, on 13 September carrying 199 passengers, 90 of which were children. The children are being transported to Canada as part of a government program. A few hours after the RN escort had withdrawn, the ship is torpedoed at 56.48N, 21.15W. The torpedo hits the ship on the port side and she sinks after a short time. Only 57 passengers, including 13 children, are rescued. Immediately after the sinking, the British government ceases the transportation of children to Canada and South Africa.
79 years ago today the child evacuee ship the City of Benares was sunk by a u-boat. Could a seafaring superstition explain the survival, against all the odds, of Fred Steel, one of the people who were found adrift in a lifeboat eight days after the sinking? LINK
Her Name Was “City of Benares”, “Tregenna”, “Crown Arun”.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-boat U-48 torpedoes and sinks the SS City of Benares, killing 77 British children and 248 crew en-route to Canada. The ship, part of convoy OB-213, had departed Liverpool, England, for Montreal and Quebec City, Canada, on 13 September carrying 199 passengers, 90 of which were children. The children are being transported to Canada as part of a government program. A few hours after the RN escort had withdrawn, the ship is torpedoed at 56.48N, 21.15W. The torpedo hits the ship on the port side and she sinks after a short time. Only 57 passengers, including 13 children, are rescued. Immediately after the sinking, the British government ceases the transportation of children to Canada and South Africa.
79 years ago today the child evacuee ship the City of Benares was sunk by a u-boat. Could a seafaring superstition explain the survival, against all the odds, of Fred Steel, one of the people who were found adrift in a lifeboat eight days after the sinking? LINK