"Just before midnight on September 17 1940, the Bech children were among 100 evacuees on board the SS City of Benares, who were woken from their sleep by a German torpedo. Minutes later Sonia and Derek were clinging to their mother in the North Atlantic, while their elder sister Barbara had disappeared down a rope that they prayed had led to a lifeboat. Four days earlier they had set sail from Liverpool destined for Canada where they were to begin a new life - far away from deadly German bombs. In the event they were the only entire family to survive a tragedy that would claim the lives of 87 children and 175 adults - and put an end to the short-lived policy of overseas evacuation." BBC News - Remembering the SS City of Benares tragedy 70 years on
survivor story, the audio link, from your post gordon, worth putting up front, as some may miss it... BBC News - Today - Survivor remembers 'mercy ship murders'
The best written description of one survivor and one of only few stories that can put a tear in my eyes is Beths story in Their Finest Hour..The sinking and days of clinging on to life are enough..The arrival of HMS Hurricane has me screaming at the pages..move..move...bloody move..
