Topic: Sinking of the Lancastria

[So… Howard Philips]

A report from the BBC about the worst shipping disaster in UK history;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-57611470

[John C]

Thanks for that mate, really interesting.

[AlphaDelta]

Good read that, cheers for posting. I wondered what the old Hurricane flypast was for at the weekend.

[Indomitable_Carp]

I had no idea this was the deadliest British sinking of the war. The propaganda attempts to hide it have done their job even all these years later.

My Grandads Uncle was part of the Laconia incident (which they even made a BBC dramatisation of a few years back) with a lot of other Liverpudlian sailors. He spent most of the rest of the war in a Vichy French POW camp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_incident

That in itself had a higher death toll then the Titanic, so for Lancastria to more then double that is horrendous.

[Son of Spion]

I had no idea this was the deadliest British sinking of the war. The propaganda attempts to hide it have done their job even all these years later.

My Grandads Uncle was part of the Laconia incident (which they even made a BBC dramatisation of a few years back) with a lot of other Liverpudlian sailors. He spent most of the rest of the war in a Vichy French POW camp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_incident

That in itself had a higher death toll then the Titanic, so for Lancastria to more then double that is horrendous.

I was totally unaware of this until I saw it on the news the other day, then saw this thread. 

[Roady]

Cheers for that. Great little read. Knew very little about it proir to this thread if I'm honest.