LOCAL HEROES by Neil Carlsen: '...a fantastic story...' - The Hull Daily Mail
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24th August 1942 — Hull, England
15-year-old James Nicholson Meeks from South Shields boarded
SS Peterton (R. Chapman & Son) bound for Buenos Aires. Still two months
short of the minimum age of 16, it was his first voyage as a Merchant Navy Apprentice.
He was joined onboard by an even younger recruit, Edward Briggs Hyde from Cullercoats,
who had only turned 15 earlier that summer; 18-year-old Able Seaman Jack Morley
from Hull, and a crew of forty men with experience ranging from raw recruit
to World War One veteran.
Less than four weeks later, SS Peterton was sunk by three torpedoes fired by
German U-boat U-109, commanded by legendary U-boat Ace Heinrich Bleichrodt.
The surviving crewmembers found themselves in two lifeboats drifting in the
Atlantic, hundreds of miles off the west coast of Africa. With their Captain
seized by the U-boat, the fate of the crew lay in the hands of senior men like
2nd Officer George Howes from Hull and Chief Engineer Thomas Gorman from North
Shields. Their struggle for survival had only just begun!
This incredible story is based on interviews and testimonies from the shipwrecked survivors and is now documented here for the very first time.
Neil Carlsen
All of the author’s royalties from sales of the book will be donated to the South Tyneside Football Trust’sPitch In for Kids campaign. The Trust has been providing sporting facilities for children’s football teams and disabled teams since 2004 but is now in desperate need of funds to finance the installation of new third generation artificial football pitches that will ensure the survival of this vital charity for many years to come.
For more information on the South Tyneside Youth Trust contact: ALAN MILLWARD,
Monkton Stadium, Dene Terrace, Jarrow, NE32 5NJ
or call (0191) 483 8802
or visit the website www.monktonfootball.com
For more information on the Pitch In for Kids campaign see this Shields Gazette article www.shieldsgazette.com
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