MERCHANT NAVY EPIC
LONDON, May 19. Another epic of the Merchant: Navy is disclosed in the account of how eight pleasure steamers—chartered by the D Day planners for cross-Channel work — endeavoured to cross the Atlantic in September, 1942. The ships were not designed for Atlantic travel and were manned by British volunteer crews. The convoy was attacked by a pack of U-boats, and three of the ships—the Boston, New York, and Yorktown— were torpedoed and sunk, as well as HM S Veteran. One by one the gallant surviving ships made port in the United Kingdom. All ,the masters and chief engineers, together with 14 other officers and ratings, received decorations from the King.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1945, Page 4
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113MERCHANT NAVY EPIC Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1945, Page 4
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