Description
Object description
Photocopies of: a ts memoir (6pp, with 2pp ms covering note), written in 2002, covering his service as an apprentice/midshipman on the liner SS CYCLOPS from April 1941 to January 1942 covering his voyage almost around the world via South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and the Panama Canal before being torpedoed and sunk by U123 with very heavy loss of life on the evening of 11 January 1942 while proceeding to join a convoy at Halifax, Nova Scotia and describing in detail how he managed to swim to, and board, a lifeboat on which there were only three other survivors by the morning on account of the cold, the survivors' inability to get access to the food and fresh water on the lifeboat because it was partly under water, their sighting by an aircraft and rescue on the early afternoon of 12 January by the Canadian minesweeper HMCS RED DEER from which they were landed at Halifax; newspaper cuttings from 'The Halifax Mail' of 13 January with photographs of Sutton and other survivors and reports of their experiences when CYCLOPS was sunk; ts notes on the history of U123; a printed obituary notice (1p), dated 2004, on Sutton; and photographs of him as an apprentice and in old age.
Content description
Photocopies of: a ts memoir (6pp, with 2pp ms covering note), written in 2002, covering his service as an apprentice/midshipman on the liner SS CYCLOPS from April 1941 to January 1942 covering his voyage almost around the world via South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and the Panama Canal before being torpedoed and sunk by U123 with very heavy loss of life on the evening of 11 January 1942 while proceeding to join a convoy at Halifax, Nova Scotia and describing in detail how he managed to swim to, and board, a lifeboat on which there were only three other survivors by the morning on account of the cold, the survivors' inability to get access to the food and fresh water on the lifeboat because it was partly under water, their sighting by an aircraft and rescue on the early afternoon of 12 January by the Canadian minesweeper HMCS RED DEER from which they were landed at Halifax; newspaper cuttings from 'The Halifax Mail' of 13 January with photographs of Sutton and other survivors and reports of their experiences when CYCLOPS was sunk; ts notes on the history of U123; a printed obituary notice (1p), dated 2004, on Sutton; and photographs of him as an apprentice and in old age.
History note
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