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I have been thumbing through Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man and the last Chapter before the Epilogue is on "The Sinking of the Lancastria".

More life lost in this ship than on The Titanic. But the story seemed to be suppressed quite a bit. It happened a few weeks after the last of the evacuations from Dunkirk on June 17, 1940.
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RMS Lancastria - Wikipedia

I have been thumbing through Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man and the last Chapter before the Epilogue is on "The Sinking of the Lancastria".

More life lost in this ship than on The Titanic. But the story seemed to be suppressed quite a bit. It happened a few weeks after the last of the evacuations from Dunkirk on June 17, 1940.
Interesting...I had never heard of this ship before. Huge loss of life.
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Interesting...I had never heard of this ship before. Huge loss of life.
More than the Titanic and the Lusitania combined.
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From Wikipedia: Approx 6,000 died 2,477 Survivors, two weeks after the Dunkirk evacuation 400 miles to the north.

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From Wikipedia: Approx 6,000 died 2,477 Survivors, two weeks after the Dunkirk evacuation 400 miles to the north.

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This is an interesting link about why is remains almost forgotten--

Lancastria: The forgotten tragedy of World War Two - BBC News
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