"Eugene Griessel" <eugene@dynagen..co..za> wrote in message news:45f5e840.2427300@news.uunet.co.za... "Arved Sandstrom" <asandstrom@accesswave.ca> wrote: Related to my earlier post about my great uncle and about he witnessed a torpedo attack on a convoy, on a date that he describes as being after the war (but which I believe must have been before VE day but after Doenitz ordered

My Mom started going through her mother's letters, many of which were written by my grandmother's brother, a merchant mariner. He ended up effectively in the British merchant marine when WW2 started. In one letter, not fully transcribed, he describes a Norwegian ship being sunk, and then a progression of depth charging by destroyer(s). The identifying feature is that we (the family) also