Thanks for that link Jacquie. Such a sad story, many escaped from the sub. using the escape apparatus only to be swept away on the strong tide. They didn't stand much chance with it being January and freezing cold unless they were picked up straight away.
I remember it as I was in my last year at school and saw it at the cinema on Univeral News or Pathe pictorial and heard it on the wireless. Unlike todays sea disaster in Italy which has been plastered all over the TV and Internet already.
I had always wanted to go to sea on leaving school but my mother put the knockers on it after that disaster. She relented though and I went away a couple of years later.
I did see some ads. for Viagara at the bottom of the link but I think they only open if you click on them. Naughty, naughty Peter.
