Title: The Forgotten Tragedy
Description: THE FORGOTTEN TRAGEDY

This book records the tragic story of the sinking of the troopship Lancastria, which was bombed and sunk by Junkers 88 dive-bombers in the estuary of the River Loire, on Monday, 17 June 1940. Crammed with approximately 6,000 troops, RAF personnel, civilians and crew, a third of whom did not survive, this incident remains Britain's worst-ever maritime disaster but, like many other shipping disasters of the Second World War, it remains little known today. Following the successful evacuation of Dunkirk only weeks before. Over a month passed before the story eventually reached the national newspapers, via American journalists.
	This first in-depth study of the incident draws on many eye-witness accounts and previously unpublished papers, and includes ninety illustrations and many appendices, the first of which is a 40-page list of the names of all the men known to have been lost with the ship. The publication completes a trilogy of titles published by Shaun Tyas commemorating and restoring to public attention the first-, second- and third-worst Allied mercantile disasters of the War.

Shaun Tyas - 2002
Subjects: British Naval operations, British Personnel narratives, Tyrrhenia (ship), Lancastria (ship), Military Transportation, Shipwrecks, World War Two 1939-1945, Oronsay (ship), John Holt (ship), Cambridgeshire (ship), Ulster Prince (ship), Dundrum Castle (ship), Highlander (HM destroyer), Havelock (HM destroyer)
Places: France, Loire River Estuary, St Nazaire, Saint Nazaire, Lancastria casualties in cemeteries at:, Pornic, Escoublac-La-Baule, Angoulins, La Bernerie-en-Retz, Le Clion-sur-Mer, Chateau d'Olonne, Chatelaillon Plage, I'lle-d'Yeu, La Plaine-sur Mer, L'Aiguillon-sur-Mer, La Barre-de-Monts, L'Herbaudiere, Les Moutiers-en-Retz, Nantes (Pons de Cens), Notre Dame-de-Monts, Normoutier-en-I'lle (L'Herbaudiere), Prefailles, Piriac-sur-Mer, Les Sables-d'Olonne, St Charles de Percy, St Denis-d'Oleron, St Marie, Soulac-sur-Mer, La Palais-sur-Mer, St Trojan-les-Bains.
Time periods: Second World War, 17 June 1940