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Ts transcript (4pp) of a contemporary account written by a rifleman in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps who was being invalided home from Egypt in the liner SS YORKSHIRE when she was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat in the Bay of Biscay on 17 October 1939, describing in vivid detail how at first he thought that the ship had been in collision, his part in helping a bedridden soldier into a lifeboat, his distress at the loss of life and resort to prayer when the ship sank just a quarter of an hour after being torpedoed and his time with other survivors in a lifeboat in heavy seas before they were rescued that night by the American SS INDEPENDENCE HALL.
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Cataloguer RWAS
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Catalogue date 1997-11
