About the Book : Torpedoed : The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The
Childrens Ship"
From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes a true account of the attack
and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating
children from England during World War II.
Amid the constant rain of German bombs and the escalating violence of World War
II, British parents by the thousands chose to send their children out of the
country: the wealthy, independently; the poor, through a government relocation
program called CORB. In September 1940, the passenger liner SS City of Benares
set out in a convoy