Overview
- Summary
- "For the first time in narrative, here is the true story of the World War II tragedy of the SS City of Benares, which remains to this day the worst ever sea disaster involving British children. More than half of all those on board this ship full of evacuees were lost after the ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat in September 1940. Of ninety very young 'seavacuee' children escaping the bombing in Britain to safety in Canada, seventy-seven died."
"Those who survived tell stories of towering seas and near-miraculous escapes clinging to rafts and wreckage for nineteen hours before rescue. One group of children managed to keep going for eight days drifting in an open boat in the north Atlantic. In this narrative the child survivors tell their story for the first time directly in their own words."--Jacket. - Format
- Book
- Published
- Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, 2005
- Locale
- Great Britain
North Atlantic Ocean - Contents
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Children of the blitz
Dodging bombs
Luxuries and lifeboat drills
The eye of the storm
The sinking of the Benares
Beth and Bess and the lifeboats
Rescue
The twelfth boat
Homecomings
The aftermath. - Notes
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Children of the blitz -- Dodging bombs -- Luxuries and lifeboat drills -- The eye of the storm -- The sinking of the Benares -- Beth and Bess and the lifeboats -- Rescue -- The twelfth boat -- Homecomings -- The aftermath.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 0470018879
9780470018873 - Physical Description
- 207 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Great Britain. World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--Great Britain. World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, German. Shipwrecks--North Atlantic Ocean. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, British. Evacuation of civilians--(1939-1945 :--World War) World War--(1939-1945) Personal narratives. City of Benares (Ship)
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