| Hugh
I've just looked at your website on loss of City of Cairo, and became engrossed in it. Some very moving accounts of the ordeal of ordinary people in a desperate situation and of the triumph of the human spirit in rising above it (and, as the missionary Donald Miller in lifeboat five felt able to write, the goodness of God in the face of evil)
However, one question occurs - which Kapitan Mertens who torpedoed the vessel pointed out. Why was this ship allowed to sail alone and unescorted into hostile waters? Some of the rescue ships appear to have been on their own as well. Was it a simply a question of some routes being not of high enough density to make up a convoy? Or not enough escorts for all routes? Or just incompetence as Mertens alleged? Any ideas on this?
Adrian |