Children of the Doomed Voyage

Timewatch

S24E10
November 18, 2005 50 min

Overview

On 17 September 1940 a German U-boat attacked the evacuee ship SS Benares en route to Canada, killing 258 of the 401 on board, including 80 of 100 child passengers. Sixty-five years on, those still living recall how they escaped death by hypothermia and drowning. 3/4.

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