[BITList] Fwd: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] The First and Last Voyage of the Fort Crevier

[John Feltham]

This may be of interest to some BITListers...

Begin forwarded message:


** Welcome to the homepage of former British Royal Navy
sailor, John Garside. During World War Two, John served
on merchant ships as a Royal Navy DEMS (Defensively-
Equipped-Merchant-Ships) Gunner. In this engrossing tale,
he recounts his many adventures aboard the Canadian-built
10,000-ton cargo ship, SS Fort Crevier. John served aboard
Fort Crevier all her life and on April 14th, 1944, at the young
age of nineteen, he witnessed a horror that would haunt him
the rest of his days -- the catastrophic explosion of the Fort
Stikine at Bombay, India.

His story is in three parts with Part 1 covering North America,
Part 2 covering Gibraltar to Karachi and Part 3 covering
Bombay. The expanded Epilogue now features documents
which John received from the family of Ft. Crevier's Third
Engineer John Walsh, who was killed in the Bombay Explosion. **

http://members.tripod.com/~merchantships/fortcrevier1.html

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Bad typists of the word, untie.