Library Talk with Victoria Schofield

The Library committee is pleased to welcome Victoria Schofield, to discuss her latest book

The Rescue Ships and the Convoys

Which tells the history of one of the least known aspects of Second World War maritime history. Despite the threat of heavy losses of ships and lives, no hospital ships, which had to be lit, could accompany the convoys as they would betray a convoy’s position. The solution was to create a fleet of 30 small Merchant Navy vessels of about 1,500 gross tons, mostly from coastal trade. These ‘Rescue Ships’, commanded and manned by Merchant Navy personnel, carried medical teams, and life-saving equipment including operating theatres, hospital beds, ‘Carley’ floats, and hoists.

Victoria Schofield is a British author, biographer, and historian

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