--- On Sat, 11/14/09, Vivian A. DSouza <socorro...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > As a 7 year old in 1947, our family had travelled by ship > from East Africa to Mormugoa, Goa. As the ship entered the > harbor, there were several ship masts sticking out of the > water, obviously of sunken ships. Later I was given to > understand that these were German > ships that had gathered in Mormugoa for safe harbor to > avoid being torpedoed if they ventured out to sea, and that > at the end of World War II the Germans had deliberately > scuttled their ships rather than allow them to fall into > British hands. --------------------------- Not likely Vivian, as the "Seawolves" incident took place at the beginning of the war. Could you have got the dates wrong? best, Selma
