
Timewatch
Children of the Doomed Voyage
TV-PG
S24 • E10 Nov 17, 2005 50mOn 17 September 1940 a German U-boat attacked the evacuee ship SS Benares en route to Canada, killing 258 of the 401 on board, including 80 of 100 child passengers. Sixty-five years on, those still living recall how they escaped death by hypothermia and drowning. 3/4.