The Sinking of SS Magdapur: Suffolk's 1st Taste of the 2nd World War

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Just a hand full of days after the start of the 2nd World War an explosion is heard off the coast of Suffolk and a ship with nearly 20 years service starts to sink, the war has come to local waters.
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@exileinderby51 Год назад

I really like hearing you narrate these war stories, many that I've never heard before. I'm looking forward to the next one already.

@AnnLyon-v3o 10 месяцев назад

Many thanks for this very interesting film. My uncle, John Matthews, was the Magdapur's apprentice. Having been born on 13 September 1923 he was 3 days' short of his 16th birthday at the time of the sinking and had only been on board a matter of days. As I understand it, the visit to Southampton was preliminary to a voyage to India, and my grandfather had given John £5 to cover his expenses on the journey, which he spent on sending telegrams home for the survivors. John was apparently unscathed but the explosion blew out his eardrums and his hearing never fully recovered. Despite this, he spent another 18 months at sea before he was 'rumbled' at put ashore. After an unhappy period in my grandfather's Inland Revenue office, John took up forestry and finished his career as head of the Forestry Department of Aberdeen University. He died in 2005, leaving two sons and three granddaughters.

@corinnerichardson9093 Год назад

It's good to hear historical stories on our area. I found this one very interesting as I didn't know anything how we were involved in the WW. Thanks for sharing and looking forward to more.

@boundsgreenboy8354 Год назад

Hi, good to hear from you again, love all of your historical stories and so good to have these told so well, keep them coming, thanks.

@tinaharnish Год назад

This was an excellent 'Little Bit of History'. Thank-you. I believe my first real knowledge of Dunkirk was from Paul Gallico's The Snow Goose. I shall enjoy hearing your coverage of the events at Dunkirk. Stay safe.🤗

@14rnr Год назад

Thanks fella, top quality as always.

@barbaralamson7450 Год назад

Always interesting. Thank you. 😊

@paulschauerman2052 Год назад

Another great video, really interesting.

@ropeburnsrussell Год назад

Thankyou for naming the Indian crew.

@alittlebitofhistory Год назад

It was the least I could do.

@nevem5010 Год назад

❤️

@richmcgee434 11 месяцев назад

10:28 "The Germans were now using magnetic mines, able to pull themselves right into the path of unsuspecting ships." That is painfully, stupidly wrong. You clearly did no research at all on what a magnetic mine is or how it works, and now I question the veracity of all the research in the rest of your videos. Guess I'm done with this channel. For anyone actually wasting time with this vid, a "magnetic mine" in this context is one that detonates due to detecting minute local fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field caused by the ferrous material in a ship's structure as it moves. Other types of mines use simple contact or acoustic sensors to set off their charges. Magnetic mines are no more mobile than any other type of naval mine, although the video creator apparently envisions them as generating powerful magnetism to drag themselves toward a target - no doubt deploying adorable little horseshoe magnets with zigzag lightning bolts coming out of them as though they were in a Warner Brothers cartoon. That isn't how it works. The mines *detect* magnetic flux, they don't generate an attractive force. The fact that he thinks that's even possible suggests he needs to go take some physics courses as well as doing research properly. Even hand-held limpet mines (which do clamp on to targets with very strong magnets) need to be practically in contact with a metal object (frequently a tank) to work. In that case the magnetism secures the explosive charge in place, it doesn't draw the weapon to a target (at least beyond a few inches) because of the way magnetic attraction drops off so rapidly with distance. How anyone gets through even grade school without firsthand knowledge of how short-ranged a strong magnetic pull is baffles me.

@alittlebitofhistory 11 месяцев назад

Thank for the feedback, I will be honest it was just a passing comment as the working of the mines were not really the point of this video. I did look into the slightly and that was the impression I got but clearly I was wrong. If you doubt anything else said in this or any other video the sources are there for you to look though and what I say is as accurate to the information I found as I can make it. You are right in that I failed physics in high school as I can not think of a more boring subject.