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THE ' SAN DEMETRIO'

on BBC Home Service Basic

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A dramatic reconstruction of the story that was described in the official report as ' an epic which will go down in history, wherever tales of the sea are told '
Written and produced by P. H. Burton
On November 5, 1940, the oil tanker San Demetrio, sailing in the famous Jervis Buy convoy, was shelled by a German pocketbattleship and set on fire. After two days in an open boat, sixteen of her crew re-boarded the burning tanker which was miraculously still afloat. They managed to put out the fires, and without compass or chart accomplished the almost impossible by bringing her across half the Atlantic to a British port.

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P. H. Burton

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