The forgotten tragedy - The story of the sinking of HMT ‘Lancastria’
Year: 2002 Language: english Author: Crabb B.J. Genre: History Publisher: Shaun Tyas Edition: 1st ISBN: 1900289504 Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 292 Description: This major book records the tragic story of the sinking of the troopship Lancastria which was bombed and sunk by Junkers 88 dive-bombers in the estuary of the River Loire on Monday 17 June 1940. Crammed with approximately 6,000 troops, RAF personnel, civilians and crew, a third of whom did not survive, this incident remains Britain’s worst-ever maritime disaster, but like many other shipping disasters of the Second World War, it remains little known today. Following the successful evacuation of Dunkirk only weeks before, Winston Churchill initially forbade media disclosure of the event. Over a month passed before the story eventually reached national newspapers, via American journalists. The first in-depth study of the incident draws on many eye-witness accounts and previously unpublished papers, and includes 90 illustrations and twelve appendices, the first of which is a 40-page list of the names of all the men known to have been lost with the ship, meticulously reconstructed by the author from many different documents in the National Archives, and giving each man their name, age, rank, regiment and staff number. The book concludes with a full index. The Lancastria was a Cunard cruise liner, launched in 1920, originally named the SS Tyrrhenia. She was renamed Lancastria in 1924. It is one of the terrible ironies of war that the surviving crew and captain of the ship, Captain Rudolph Sharp, transferred to the Laconia, also requisitioned for war service, and subsequently sunk in September 1942, as Britain’s second-worst maritime disaster. The Laconia story was published by the same publisher as The Sinking of the Laconia, by Frederick Grossmith, which book was used as the basis for the recent television drama by Alan Bleasdale.
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The forgotten tragedy - The story of the sinking of HMT ‘Lancastria’
Year: 2002
Language: english
Author: Crabb B.J.
Genre: History
Publisher: Shaun Tyas
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 1900289504
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 292
Description: This major book records the tragic story of the sinking of the troopship Lancastria which was bombed and sunk by Junkers 88 dive-bombers in the estuary of the River Loire on Monday 17 June 1940. Crammed with approximately 6,000 troops, RAF personnel, civilians and crew, a third of whom did not survive, this incident remains Britain’s worst-ever maritime disaster, but like many other shipping disasters of the Second World War, it remains little known today. Following the successful evacuation of Dunkirk only weeks before, Winston Churchill initially forbade media disclosure of the event. Over a month passed before the story eventually reached national newspapers, via American journalists. The first in-depth study of the incident draws on many eye-witness accounts and previously unpublished papers, and includes 90 illustrations and twelve appendices, the first of which is a 40-page list of the names of all the men known to have been lost with the ship, meticulously reconstructed by the author from many different documents in the National Archives, and giving each man their name, age, rank, regiment and staff number. The book concludes with a full index. The Lancastria was a Cunard cruise liner, launched in 1920, originally named the SS Tyrrhenia. She was renamed Lancastria in 1924. It is one of the terrible ironies of war that the surviving crew and captain of the ship, Captain Rudolph Sharp, transferred to the Laconia, also requisitioned for war service, and subsequently sunk in September 1942, as Britain’s second-worst maritime disaster. The Laconia story was published by the same publisher as The Sinking of the Laconia, by Frederick Grossmith, which book was used as the basis for the recent television drama by Alan Bleasdale.
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