A woman has spoken about the grief her mum felt as the brother she "raised herself" was killed in a WWII torpedo attack.
Samuel Harrocks, from Lewisham Road, was aboard the HMS Daring off the Scottish coast when the warship was targeted by U-boat commander Otto Kretschmer in 1940. Samuel, or Sam to his family, was just 23 at the time, and was asleep in his cabin when a torpedo sunk the battle ship, killing 157 crew members including Sam.
Elaine Buchan, who lives in Aintree, is Sam's niece, and got in touch with the ECHO after the new iteration of the HMS Daring made a visit to Liverpool docks. She spoke about how the tragedy impacted her whole life, even though it began as just "little bits" her mum told her when she was younger.
