September 17

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781552443682

<p>In July 1940, a British government-sponsored program called Children&#39;s Overseas Reception Board -- or CORB -- was set up to send children from Britain to Canada and other Commonwealth countries, in order to rescue them from the bombings of British cities. <i>The City of Benares </i>was a luxury liner that was recruited in September 1940 to transport 90 of these children to Canada, along with the ship&#39;s regular passenger complement. A convoy of ships including The <i>Benares </i>set off from Liverpool in mid-September and approximately six hundred miles out, after the naval escorts had withdrawn, the ship was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sank in about half an hour. Only thirteen of the CORB children survived the sinking. As a result of this tragedy, the program was cancelled.