The Sinking of the Lancastria

A fortnight after the evacuation at Dunkirk some 150,000 British troops were still stuck in France. As the German advance thundered west these Allied soldiers and airmen were faced with a mad dash to the coast in the hope that a troop-ship awaited them there. One such vessel was the ''Lancastria'', a 16,000-ton liner pressed into service and now anchored off the port of St-Nazaire. On 17 June 1940...