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Interviews with survivors of SS Thistlegorm, merchant seamen Ray Gibson, John Whitham and Glyn Owen, plus Denis Gray (Royal Marines, gunner on HMS Carlisle. Recorded for use in television documentary about the Thistlegorm's last voyage. SS Thistlegorm was an armed merchant ship which was bombed by the Luftwaffe on 6 October 1941, while at anchor in the Red Sea. The survivors were picked up by the light cruiser HMS Carlisle, anchored nearby.
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TV 98X/15 (Beta-SP) Interview with John Whitham (Part 1).
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TV 98X/16 (Beta-SP) Interview with John Whitham (Part 2).
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TV 98X/17 (Beta-SP) Interview with John Whitham (Part 3).
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TV 98X/18 (Beta-SP) Interview with Ray Gibson (Part 1).
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TV 98X/19 (Beta-SP) Interview with Ray Gibson (Part 2).
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TV 98X/20 (Beta-SP) Interview with Ray Gibson (Part 3).
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TV 98X/21 (Beta-SP) Interview with Ray Gibson (Part 4).
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TV 98X/22 (Beta-SP) Interview with Denis Gray RM (Part 1).
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TV 98X/23 (Beta-SP) Interview with Denis Gray RM (Part 2).
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TV 98X/24 (Beta-SP) Interview with Denis Gray RM (Part 3). (NB No tapes numbered 25, 26 and 27.)
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TV 98X/28 (Beta-SP) Interview with Glyn Owen (Part 1).
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TV 98X/29 (Beta-SP) Interview with Glyn Owen (Part 2). (Note that Tape 30 – Part 3 of the Glyn Owen interview – is not held in video form, although the audio exists on cassette; see below.)
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TV 98X/31 (Beta-SP) Interview with Glyn Owen (Part 4).
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TV 98X/15-16 (Audiocassette) Unedited audio interview tape: John Whitham.
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TV 98X/17-18 (Audiocassette) Unedited audio interview tape: John Whitham and Ray Gibson.
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TV 98X/18-19 (Audiocassette) Unedited audio interview tape: Ray Gibson.
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TV 98X/20-21 (Audiocassette) Unedited audio interview tape: Ray Gibson.
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TV 98X/21-22 (Audiocassette) Unedited audio interview tape: Ray Gibson and Denis Gray.
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TV 98X/23-24 (Audiocassette) Unedited audio interview tape: Denis Gray.
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TV 98X/28-29 (Audiocassette) Unedited audio interview tape: Glyn Owen.
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TV 98X/30-31 (Audiocassette) Unedited audio interview tape: Glyn Owen.
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Beta-SP; audio cassette