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Book “The Second Torpedo” about the torpedoing of the SS Volendam, by Ilene Birkwood

Softback book “The Second Torpedo” about the torpedoing of the SS Volendam, which was evacuating 300 school children from England to Canada in 1940. The author, Ilene Birkwood, was one of the surviving children. The ship`s purser`s body washed up on Tiree and was buried in Kirkapol cemetery – see pages 89-90.