Two veterans recalled the horrific memory of watching 12 of their comrades die, after being stranded for 50-days at sea, during the Second World War.
Colin Armitage and Kenneth Cooke opened up about how he and his crew were left adrift on a small boat in the middle of the ocean with sharks circling below and little chance of rescue, reports Hull Live. With the sun beating down and few rations left, both were close to death.
During the war, they were left stranded after their Merchant Navy ship, SS Lulworth Hill, was torpedoed by an Italian submarine in March 1943, with the crew scrambling to safety aboard a lifeboat hundreds of miles off the coast of Africa. Now, eighty years on, both are being honoured with new plaques in their respective communities.
