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PASSAGE TO DESTINY
The Story of the Tragic Loss of the SS Khedive Iamail
This book tells the untold story of the loss of the troopship SS Khedive Ismail in Convoy KR8 in February 1944. No less than 1,297 people lost their lives in the space of the two minutes it took to sink the ship, including seventy-seven women the single worst loss of female presonnel in the history of the British Commonwealth). Carrying 1,511 personnel from the Army and the Royal and Merchant Navies, the Khedive Ismail snak on Saturday 12 February 1944, torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-27 in the Indian Ocean. Only 208 men and six women survived the ordeal.
The submarine was depth-charged to the surface by the deatroyers Paladin and Petard, and the book includes an account of their difficult but successful attempt to sink her, a campaign which forced the Navy to depth-charge the submarine through some of the survivors.
This compelling read draws on many eye-witness accounts and previously unpublished Admiralty papers, many of which were not released for forty years because of their sensitivity, fot the sinking of the Khedive Ismail was the third worst Allied mercantile disaster of the Second World War.
The book includes several appendices, including the names of the entire ship's complement, and includes a generous fifty-three illustrations.
Shaun Tyas - 1997
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Passage to destiny: the sinking of the troopship Khedive Ismail in the sea war against Japan
2015, Shaun Tyas
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Passage to Destiny: The sinking of the SS Khedive Ismail in the sea war against Japan
September 1997, Paul Watkins
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First published by Paul Watkins, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-206) and index.
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