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From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII.
Amid the constant rain of German bombs and the escalating violence of World War II, British parents by the thousands chose to send their children out of the country: the wealthy, independently; the poor, through a government relocation program called CORB. In September 1940, passenger liner SS City of Benares set sail for Canada with one hundred children on board.
When the war ships escorting the Benares departed, a German submarine torpedoed what became known as the Childrens Ship. Out of tragedy, ordinary people became heroes. This is their story.
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FOR JOHN BAKER,
FOR SONIA WILLIAMS,
and
IN MEMORY OF ALL THOSE WHO DIED
Colin Ryder Richardsons life jacket. [Sarah Ryder Richardson, courtesy of the Egham Museum]
A few years ago, my editor showed me a photograph of a custom-made childs life jacket. Do you want to look into this story, she asked? I did! And what a story it turned out to beone full of drama and despair, triumph and joy. Its a story of people who become heroes and of innocents who die. A tale of people who survive against the odds.
It is a true story. There is nothing made up in this book.
When recalling an event that happened so long ago, people who were there can have different memories. When people go through a traumatic event, they remember important details, but some things get lost or misremembered. I have reconstructed the events as best I could, relying on memories of the survivors both close to the event and decades later.
You will notice that most of the dialogue is not set in quotation marks. I used quotation marks for material that came from a letter or journal written at or close to that time. A lot of the dialogue comes from interviews decades later. People dont tend to remember exactly what was said. But they do remember the gist of it. I wanted to use the dialogue they remembered, but I felt more comfortable omitting quotation marks around it.
You will also notice that I have included very few names and personal stories of the sailors from India, called lascars, even though they made up most of the crew. Because of racism and classism, nobody interviewed the lascars at the time. I tried to find survivors and relatives of survivors so I could include their memories, but even with the help of people in India and England, I could not find anyone. That said, we know they were there. We know they, too, were heroes, and that many of them died.
This is a story of war. I hope telling it will lead to less war and more peace.
On theCity of Benares
Patricia Allen, 12, CORB child, also a passenger on Volendam
John (Johnny) Baker, 7, CORB child
Robert (Bobby) Baker, 12, CORB child
Barbara Bech, 15, traveling with her mother and siblings
Derek Bech, 9
Marguerite Bech, mother of the Bech children
Sonia Bech, 11
Michael Brooker, 10, CORB child, also a passenger on Volendam
Patricia (Pat) Bulmer, 14, traveling with her mother
Ramjam Buxoo, crew member, Lifeboat 12
Alan Capel, 5, CORB child
Derek Capel, 12, CORB child, Lifeboat 12
Howard Claytor, 11, CORB child, Lifeboat 12
Ronald (Ronnie) Cooper, fourth officer of City of Benares, captain of Lifeboat 12
Mary Cornish, 41, music teacher, CORB escort, Lifeboat 12
George Crawford, 13, CORB child
Doug Critchley, sea cadet on the City of Benares, Lifeboat 12
Elizabeth (Beth) Cummings, 14, CORB child
Eric Davis, BBC reporter, on raft with Jack Keely
Marjorie Day, head CORB escort
Maureen Dixon, 10, CORB child
Sybil Gilliat-Smith, 25, artist, CORB escort
Ruby Grierson, filmmaker making a documentary about CORB children
Augusta (Gussie) Grimmond, 13, CORB child
Connie Grimmond, 9, CORB child
Edward Jr. (Eddie) Grimmond, 8, CORB child
Leonard (Lennie) Grimmond, 5, CORB child
Violet, Grimmond, 10, CORB child
Terrence Holmes, 10, CORB child
Joan Irving, 15, CORB child
Jack Keeley, 9, CORB child
Joyce Keeley, 6, CORB child
Edmond Mackinnon, admiral, commodore of the convoy
Johnny Mayhew, Royal Navy signaler on City of Benares, Lifeboat 12
John McGlashan, second engineer of the City of Benares, on raft with Jack Keeley
Tommy Milligan, crew member of the City of Benares, on raft with the Bechs
Ailsa Murphy, 10, CORB child
Beryl Myatt, 9, CORB child
Bohdan Nagorski, Polish businessman and passenger, Lifeboat 12
Landles Nicoll, captain of the City of Benares
Father Roderic (Rory) OSullivan, priest, CORB escort, Lifeboat 12
Harry Peard, gunner on the City of Benares, Lifeboat 12
George Purvis, assistant steward of the City of Benares, Lifeboat 12
Laszlo Raskai, Hungarian BBC journalist, Colins chaperone
Michael Rennie, 23, CORB escort
Colin Ryder Richardson, 11, traveling alone
Paul Shearing, 11, CORB child, Lifeboat 12
William (Bill) Short, 9, CORB child, Lifeboat 12
Peter Short, 5, CORB child
Kenneth (Ken) Sparks, 12, CORB child, Lifeboat 12
Rosemary Spencer-Davies, 15, CORB child
Harry Frederick (Fred) Steels, 11, CORB child, Lifeboat 12
Abdul Subhan, crew member
Rex Thorne, 13, CORB child
Marion (Mary) Thorne, 7, CORB child
Lilian Towns, CORB escort
Bess Walder, 15, CORB child
Louis Walder, 10, CORB child
Doris Walker, passenger en route to Australia, on raft with the Bechs
Ann Watson, 6, CORB child
Arthur Wimperis, 66, English playwright, screenwriter en route to Hollywood
Eleanor Wright, 13, CORB child
Margaret Zeal, CORB doctor
CORB officials
Elsbeth Davies, CORB welfare director
Geoffrey Shakespeare, head of the CORB program
On theHurricane
Peter Collinson, doctor
Patrick Fletcher, navigator
Albert Gorman, skipper of the Hurricanes whaler
Hugh Crofton Simms, captain
On U-Boat 48
Heinrich Ajax Bleichrodt, Kapitnleutnant commander
Rolf Hilse, wireless radio engineer
Others
Mr. and Mrs. Baker, Bobby and Johnnys parents
Alan Francis, 10, child from Wembley, not in CORB
Edward (Eddie) and Hannah Grimmond, parents of five CORB children
Eileen Paterson, Mary Cornishs sister
Ian Paterson, Eileens husband, Mary Cornishs brother-in-law
Leslie Lewis, skipper of the Marina lifeboat
Mr. and Mrs. Walder, Bess and Louiss parents
I N THE MID-ATLANTIC Ocean, a German war submarine has an ocean liner in its sights. The U-boat commander and his crew have been following the ship all day. They are waiting for the right moment.
The two hundred passengers on the ship have no idea a U-boat lurks beneath the water, ready to attack. One hundred of the passengers are children. Most of them are in bed, asleep in their pajamas.
A few minutes before 10 p.m., the commander of U-boat 48 gives the order: Torpedoes away
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