The stories listed below are just a small portion of the stories of the many who survived during World War 2.
Prologue
Merchant Seamen during time of War, the added loss of
freedom, the absence of choice, the added physical hardship imposed by the axis
nations Germany, Italy, Japan, which had repudiated entirely any rules of the
Geneva Convention and treatment of Prisoners Of War (POW’s).
The suffering expounded by a morally evil enemy upon those
captured (POWs).
Dönitz to Hitler, (May 1943)
"What is now decisive is that enemy aircraft have been equipped with a new
location apparatus ...which enables them to detect submarines and to attack
them unexpectedly in low cloud, bad visibility, or at night. Much the largest
number of submarines now being sunk are being sunk by aircraft. .......In the
last month losses have risen from 14 submarines, that is about 13% of those at
sea, to 36 submarines or perhaps 37, that is about 30% of the submarines at
sea. These losses are too high. We must now husband our resources because, to
do anything else, would simply be to play the enemy's game." List of Stories
- City of Cairo
- Convoy SL64
- Indian Ocean Rescue
- MV Rabaul - Survivor story
- MV Tulagi Raft Drift story
- SS Fort Buckingham Survivors story
- SS Nellore
- Esso Williamsburg Lifeboat
- Ceramic - The Sole Survivor
- KPM Ships - van Imhoff and Rooseboom
- Gordon Kersey Story
- The sinking of the Salviking
- Empire Lake
- SS Empire Merlin
- Awatea
- Convoy JW 56A and the Fort Bellingham story
- The Alaska Drama
- Recollections of the MV Macdhui
- SS Ogontz
- Convoy SC-7
- SS Avoceta Graham Morris Survivor Story
If you would like to contribute to the Survivor Stories email us ron@mercantilemarine.org
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