Windrush: A Ship Through Time
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For three decades the Windrush was the maritime Zelig of the 20th century. Designed in 1930 in the Hamburg boatyard of a Jewish shipbuilder to ferry Germans to a new life in South America, it wasn't long before Goebbels requisitioned her. She became a Nazi troop carrier, a support vessel for the pocket battleship Tirpitz, and a prison ship transporting Jews to Auschwitz. Captured by the British in 1945 and renamed the SS Empire Windrush, she then spent years evacuating displaced service people and, in her famous single voyage from the Caribbean, she brought the first wave of black migrants to Britain. This vivid biography combines the memories of people who were there with a gripping account of an extraordinary merchant ship at the end of empires.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0750989866
ISBN13:9780750989862
Release Date:September 2019
Publisher:History Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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