Poon Lim's Raft: A WWII Survival Story
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered
Funny about the number of merchant marine sailors killed. All the stories I've heard up till now kind of implied that not many sailors died, that most of them managed to board life boats and were later rescued. But History Guy says 36,000 sailors died and 3,500 ships sunk. That's like ten men per ship. Since by the time of WW2 most ships were burning oil instead of coal, so they wouldn't have needed a black gang of a dozen men to shovel coal, so I'm thinking ten men was probably the whole complement, which means most sailors on ships that were torpedoed died. Makes the War of the Atlantic much grimmer.
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| Route of the Ben Lomond |
The route from Port Said to Cape Town is barely visible, so I tried plotting it on Google Earth, but after it crashed for the third time I gave up. Probably crashed because I'm still using Windows.
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