Torpedoed!: A World War II Story of a Sinking Passenger Ship and Two Children's Survival at Sea

Torpedoed!: A World War II Story of a Sinking Passenger Ship and Two Children's Survival at Sea — page 5
xii PRoloGUE Florence and Mary Kelly spent the summer of 1939 on the British Isle of Man Library of Congress LOT 13415 no 701 LC-DIG-ppmsc-08688 conditions along with the constant fear that they might never make it ashore Throughout the night they bobbed on the vast Atlantic Ocean where as one survivor put it every wave is your enemy What had caused the explosion Some thought it was simply a mechanical problem But everyone was think ing about the announcement of war between Great Brit ain and Germany just hours before And some passengers said they had seen a submarine lurking on the surface of the water just before the explosion occurred Florence