COULD someone explain why, other than for reasons of making large amounts of money, such a fuss is being made of the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic?
Between 4,000 and 9,000 British military and civilians (no-one knows the exact number) drowned on the RMS Lancastria when it was bombed on June 17, 1940, off the coast of France.
Most people have never heard of the Lancastria and the 70th anniversary in 2010 received minimal coverage in the British media. In addition, the sequence of events that led to the sinking remains carefully unexplained to this day.
Jeff Brooks, Grindle Walk, Rogerstone, Newport
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