Other Researchers

A correspondent recently told me that there were other web-sites about the sinking of S S Britannia (on which my father was a passenger) in 1941, including some about the Goan crew.

Remarkably the web sites contained details of 4 or 5 people who signed a menu on which my father obtained the signatures of most of the survivors picked up by the Cabo de Hornos, including 4 people who were picked up from a raft.

One item that was particularly poignant was an account of another passenger who was picked up by the Cabo de Hornos and may have been in the same lifeboat as my Dad:

Sinking of the Britannia - Other Web-sites

Researcher in Goa

I was delighted that a journalist in Goa, who had collated extensive research into his web site, had been advised of my web site:

http://www.misquita.in/britannia/index.html

He was able to show the son of another survivor, picked up by the Cabo de Hornos, my father's account of the sinking of the SS Britannia including the menu which his father had signed:

The menu (i.e. the inside pages)on which my father obtained the signatures of nearly all the survivors picked up by the Cabo de Hornos

The journalist in Goa plans to write a book about the Britannia and may use some of the material that Dad and I put together.

C M Bower
15 December 2008

Links to:
Sinking of the S S Britannia - Index