When the British troop ship 'Lancastria' was sunk in June 1940, some 5,000 people died - but news of the disaster was kept from the British public. Raye Dancocks explains how this has meant that the ...
While the Lancastria disaster was hushed up for many years after World War II, the courage of these two chaplains could not be contained. ABOVE: An image from the movie ‘Dunkirk’, via IMDB.com. BELOW: ...
Seventy five years after the sinking of the Lancastria - Britain's worst maritime disaster in history - why is the tragedy largely forgotten? And what do those touched by the catastrophe want now?
The Government has been urged to do more to recognise the lives lost in Britain's worst maritime disaster. The HMT Lancastria troop ship was thought to be carrying more than 6,000 servicemen and ...
Britain's worst ever maritime disaster, the 1940 sinking of the troopship Lancastria, which claimed the lives of between four and six thousand men, has all but been erased from history. But survivors ...
It was the worst disaster in British maritime history, but remains largely unknown. The sinking of the Lancastria with 4000 deaths on June 17, 1940, was the biggest single loss of life for British ...
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The evacuation of British troops from France in 1940 did not end with Dunkirk. British forces were still being rescued two weeks later when Britain's worst maritime disaster of World War II took place ...
When the British troop ship 'Lancastria' was sunk in June 1940, some 5,000 people died - but news of the disaster was kept from the British public. Raye Dancocks explains how this has meant that the ...
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