Description
Object description
Two ts monographs compiled in 1998, the first (16pp) covering the loss of the destroyer HMS RACOON and her entire ship's company off Malin Head on the north coast of Ireland during a heavy snowstorm in the early hours of 9 January 1918, and based on newspaper reports and official records, notably the proceedings of the Board of Enquiry into her sinking held on 14 January 1918; and the second (23pp) covering the torpedoing of the troopship SS MOHAMED ALI EL-KEBIR by U 38 some 250 miles west of Malin on 7 August 1940 with the loss of approximately 120 lives, and based on official records, principally relating to the rescue of over 700 survivors by the destroyer HMS GRIFFIN, newspaper reports and the personal testimony of survivors, most of them former members of 706 General Construction Company RE and of a small naval draft on board the troopship.
Content description
Two ts monographs compiled in 1998, the first (16pp) covering the loss of the destroyer HMS RACOON and her entire ship's company off Malin Head on the north coast of Ireland during a heavy snowstorm in the early hours of 9 January 1918, and based on newspaper reports and official records, notably the proceedings of the Board of Enquiry into her sinking held on 14 January 1918; and the second (23pp) covering the torpedoing of the troopship SS MOHAMED ALI EL-KEBIR by U 38 some 250 miles west of Malin on 7 August 1940 with the loss of approximately 120 lives, and based on official records, principally relating to the rescue of over 700 survivors by the destroyer HMS GRIFFIN, newspaper reports and the personal testimony of survivors, most of them former members of 706 General Construction Company RE and of a small naval draft on board the troopship.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1999-01