Miracles on the water the heroic survivors of a World War II U-boat attack
On Sept. 17, 1940, at a little after ten at night, a German submarine torpedoed the passenger liner S.S. City of Benares in the North Atlantic. There were 406 people on board, including 90 children headed for peaceful Canada, their parents having elected to send them away from Great Britain to escap...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Miracles on the water : |b the heroic survivors of a World War II U-boat attack / |c Tom Nagorski. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Hyperion, |c c2006. | ||
| 300 | |a xv, 345 p., [16] p. of plates : |b ill., maps ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-328) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a On Sept. 17, 1940, at a little after ten at night, a German submarine torpedoed the passenger liner S.S. City of Benares in the North Atlantic. There were 406 people on board, including 90 children headed for peaceful Canada, their parents having elected to send them away from Great Britain to escape the ravages of World War II. The Benares sank in half an hour, in a gale that sent several of her lifeboats pitching into the frigid sea, more than three hundred miles from the nearest rescue vessel. Not one of the survivors had any reasonable hope of rescue. The initial "miracle" involves one British destroyer's race to the scene; the second is the story of Lifeboat 12, missed by the destroyer, 46 people jammed for eight days in a craft built for 30. Based on first hand accounts from the child survivors and other passengers.--From publisher description. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Naval operations, German. | |
| 650 | 0 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Naval operations |x Submarine. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Shipwrecks |z North Atlantic Ocean. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. |v Anecdotes. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Passenger ships |z Great Britain |x History |y 20th century. | |
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