‘GREAT DEEDS… IN LITTLE SHIPS’
THE RESCUE SHIPS AND THE CONVOYS, SAVING LIVES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
AN ILLUSTRATED TALK BY VICTORIA SCHOFIELD
Aultbea Community Hub, Thursday 10th October, 7.30pm. Entry free, donations to the Arctic Convoy Museum welcomed.
Rescue ships played a vital role in the Arctic Convoys from Loch Ewe to northern Russia. Their principal task was to save the lives of seamen whose ships were sunk by enemy action. In her recently published book, Victoria Schofield tells the story of how this service came to be formed during WWII and the role the rescue ships played in the Arctic Convoys from Loch Ewe to Murmansk and Archangel. Drawing on research that includes letters and memoirs from those who served on the rescue ships, Victoria explains why the story of the rescue ships resonates in the present day, as one of the most under reported and unknown aspects of the war at sea.
Victoria Schofield is an author, historian and commentator on international affairs. She read Modern History at the University of Oxford and was the Visiting Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony’s College during which she wrote a biography of military historian and royal biographer, Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, published by Yale University Press. Her most recent publication is an expanded and revised edition of The Rescue Ships and the Convoys, Saving Lives during the Second World War, first published by her father, late Vice Admiral B.B. Schofield, CB, CBE, in 1968.
