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"The U-boat can quite be referred to as Hitler's last cards, and he will play it for many he is worthwhile." - Sir Stafford Cripps On the morning hours of November 9, 1942, the Dunedin Star, a 13,000-ton refrigerated cargo ship, was tugged off her moorings, and nudged in to the oral cavity of the Mersey River, that iconic entranceway to Liverpool Harbor, and the British gateway to the exterior world. On her port part, Fort Perch hung ghostly and silent in the dawn light, and the old Leashow Lighthouse blinked forlornly on the North Wirral headland. As she handed down the harbor wall surfaces and entered available drinking water, the harbor pilot shook the captain's side and wished him Godspeed, before clambering right down to the pilot sail boat, chugging softly alongside the ship. Orders were given, and in the engine motor room, the great wheels began to turn. Under power, the Dunedin Star handed down alongside the Liver Building and the reduced bluffs of Crosby, before gliding out in to the shipping lanes. In a hour, as the fog was starting to clear, she entered upon the grey and restless waters of the Irish Sea, proceeding toward Saint Georges Channel, and the wide-open, naked expanse, of the North Atlantic Ocean. The Dunedin Star belonged to the Blue Star Line, a Liverpool-based company that had so far suffered a disproportionate lack of tonnage, thanks to the attrition of warfare. That year alone, Blue Star could list the Avila Star, the Viking Star, the Andalucía Star, the Empire Star, and the Pacific Star, all casualties of U-Boat disorders, and by the finish of the year, the Ionic, Doric, Sultan, Adelaide, Wellington, Avelona, Arandora, Auckland, Napier, Almeda, Afric, Rodney, Imperial, Tacoma, and Scottish Superstars would become a member of that list. With the outbreak of warfare in 1939, there have been 38 Blue Star boats afloat, but by the finish of the warfare, there would be only nine, and in total, 646 Blue Star seamen would lose their lives as a consequence of these losses.The Dunedin Star was enroute to Egypt, via the Cape and Aden, a lengthy diversion around the southern tip of Africa made necessary by the effective closure of the Mediterranean to non-naval shipment. In North Africa, Allied and Axis capabilities remained at one another's throats, as the balance of the warfare was determined in a see-saw action of move forward and retreat, over the great deserts of Libya and Egypt.All informed, it was indeed a nervous and sober compliment of staff and travellers that steamed cautiously in the most dangerous oceanic region ever known. And, as time would inform, that they had every to be, because they were about to undertake a few of the most famous trials and tribulations of the warfare. The Shipwreck of the MV Dunedin Star: THE ANNALS of the Famous English Dispatch during World War II, chronicles one of the very most famous rescue testimonies of the warfare. This audiobook depicts important people, places, and situations, and you'll learn about the Dunedin Star like nothing you've seen prior.
