Ship Survivors

[Captain Kong]

Trying to find ships survivors who landed in Tunisia who were Interned by the French as PoW


There are several ships survivors interned by the French in Tunisia,
I cannot find the DORSET yet but plenty on google and BING


HMS Manchester in the Second World War 1939-1945 - The ...
https://wartimememoriesproject.com/w...p.php?pid=2500
Thomas survived and was taken prisoner and interned by the Vichy French at Laghouat in Algeria. With the landing of British and American troops in Morocco and Algeria as part of Operation Torch on 8th November 1942,


still searching.....................

[cappy]

morning brian .....i sailed with a chief officer in 1960 he was sunk on a vessel by the french navy ...i believe she was the wray castle .....hands were given brutal tretment and marched across deserts etc to timbuctoo ....there are still graves looked after there by the CWGC.....deep sea may have info.....he was master of the vessel when fired upon by french naval forces andinjured entering the life boat .....sadly on the vessel i was in at the time was filled with people suffering from drink problems he was put ashore in osaka after leaving the bridge on his watch with no.one at the wheel and only a few miles at full speed heading into a horseshoe atoll...and under the influence ....the vessel had massive alcohol problems in all sections....we had an AB just from prison stabbing a man after coming home from sea and finding his wife adrift .....all hands felt sorry and oneway and another he never turned to till we reached curacao for bunkers ...he turned to up forrard to stand by when the mate asked who the fxxx are you ...we had a company rum for all hands to last 6 months it was broached and gone by we reached curacao ,,,,,even ist trippers drinking rum every night .....no one missed there watch the second engineer coming down our end on xmas eve at sea....we said to him you just do what your told like us .....he said no i dont he was asked well prove it go and turn her up a couple of notches ...off he went half cut ....up she jumped rattling like a marble in a tin can...the others had other problems ....the wheel man said all hell broke out onthe bridge...the mate the second engineer the chief engineer the old man and the old mans wife.....all shouting at once .....the mate had suffered terrible abuse and looking back i think that was his prob even after been relieved at sea he was in our quarters looking for drink a sad sad sight .....people ashore would never understand these things but that is all fact ....and that is only part of the trip ......the mate was a proper old time seaman and much liked really......cappy

[Doc Vernon]

Will have a look around Capt and see if there is anything i can help with
Cheers

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[Doc Vernon]

That Link you give Capt , there is a listing of all the POW Camps as you apparently would know.
The PG ones are the ones to look at as they are the ones in Tunisia ( Italy)
Cheers

[Keith Tindell]

I have been reading the account of the sinking of the Laconia, some of her survivors were rescued by a Vichy french ship, and landed and handed over to the Germans, kt

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Forgot the Link

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...survivors.html

[Fouro]

Re your # 2 post Cappy.
Click on html below.

https://u-boat.net/allies/merchants/crews/ship897.html

Fouro.

[Fouro]

Re my # 6 post above. Try this.

https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/crews/ship897.html

Fouro.

[cappy]

that is not showing fouro just get ,,,,this site has closed down .....thanks cappy

[DeepSea]

Survivors from the following ships I have on record were held in Tunisia at some point:

Clan Ferguson

Empire Defender

Empire Guillemot

Glenorchy

Parracombe

[DeepSea]

Trying to find ships survivors who landed in Tunisia who were Interned by the French as PoW. There are several ships survivors interned by the French in Tunisia,
I cannot find the DORSET

If you are referring to the Merchant ship Dorset from Operation Pedestal. All her crew were picked up by the British Destroyer HMS Bramham.