Man on a raft

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi All.
I have been looking for a picture on the site that used to be in history I think. It is a picture of a man standing on a raft holding onto the mast, I think the picture was taken from a U boat. Any help appreciated.
Cheers Des BritishMN1 (Small).gif

[Bill Bland]

Was it not a poster from ww2, "Loose lips sink ships"
Have seen it somewhere on the net in the last year or two, have a sneaking fealing its a U.S. site about the "Libertys".
Bill Bland

[Doc Vernon]

Hi Des
Not perhaps this site with the Pic ! Scroll down to the Pic of two Men in a lifeboat!??
Cheers
USS Henry R. Mallory, Personal Stories of the Sinking

Or is this perhaps the one??

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[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Bill@ Vernon
Thanks for the reply, but not the ones I'm looking for, It was posted I think around 2008/9 in the Historic section. It was a bloke in a pair of jeans and a singlet hanging onto a mast of a now I think of it a wooden float, it was taken by a Uboat skipper no one knew who he was and obviously wouldn't have survived.
Thanks Des

[Keith at Tregenna]

A Merchant Navy seaman rescued following the sinking of his ship. © Imperial War Museum.

DOUBT WHAT YOU SEEK, BUT ADD ANYWAY.

A Merchant Navy seaman rescued following the sinking of his ship. © Imperial War Museum.

ICONIC MN PIC: WWII Merchant Seamen Honoured At Bristol's Empire Museum | Culture24

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[Tony Wilding]

POSTERraft.jpgTHE ONLY ONE I CAN FIND,

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Keith and Tony.
Not the one but thanks, Keith I will down load that one for future.
I may have it in my vast pile of flopies, just have to take the time to find it.
Cheers Des

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[Evan Lewis]

depicts the Boat,in which Robert Tapscott A.B.of Cardiff and Wilbur Widdicombe of Newport survived seven weeks in.During W.W.2. From memory, they were picked up and taken to Canada.Where after recovery, Robert elected to stay in Canada ,joining the R.C.A.F. The younger, J.O.S.joined a Port Boat to return to U.K. Within three weeks ,the Vessel was Sunk approaching the Scottish Coast,the young fellow being finally claimed . Another Unsung Hero.of those dreadful times .Lest We Forget!

[Keith at Tregenna]

Roy Widdicombe was one of only two survivors of the SS Anglo Saxon which was sunk by the German raider, the Widder. He and Robert Tapscott spent 70 days drifting at sea in a jolly boat from the Anglo Saxon until it beached in the Bahamas, a distance of 2275 miles. After recovery from his ordeal in the jolly boat, he was returning to the UK when the Siamese Prince was torpedoed and he lost his life.

On 6 August 1940 the merchant ship SS Anglo Saxon left Newport, Wales, carrying a cargo of coal to Bahia Blanca, Argentina. Her crew numbered 41 officers and men, and she was armed with one deck gun. On 8 August she joined the outward-bound Liverpool Convoy OB 195. Several days later she left the convoy and proceeded independently to Bahia Blanca. The voyage was uneventful until on the night of 21 August she encountered the German armed merchant raider Widder approximately 800 miles west of the Canary Islands... LINK: SS Anglo Saxon Jolly Boat - Home Page

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[Evan Lewis]

Quite correct Keith .It was a Prince ,not Port boat. On which the J.O.S. was returning. What a sad ending. Regarding the time -frame ,of their amazing survival though, It was ,precisely fifty days. still "a long time ",in any ones language.As the saying goes. The seventy day ordeal, believed to be the longest period. was a Chinese. I think fireman. Know that a few of the Port talbo ,wartime seamen ,sais they.d seen him later, at the Shipping federation there. Re. R.Tapscott,he too had a untimely end. Apparently, fell asleep in his room ,with a lighted cigarette,causing the fire.believe at the time ,he was living in the Bute town area. Possibly late sixties early seventies.Read it in the Echo, at the time.Sailed with many ,from Cardiff who knew him well. Cheers , Evan