Atlantic Convoy Torpedo Survivors - Peter Stark Lansley

While serving on M. V. Wandby as 2nd Radio Officer aged 21 years, Peter Stark Lansley's merchant ship was hit by a German U-boat torpedo and sunk off the coast of Iceland. The sinking of M.V. Wandby was part of one of the biggest convoy disasters of the war. M.V. Wandby was in convoy HX79 in which 63 ships were lost during the night of 19-20 October 1940. The German U-boat aces Kapitänleutnant Günther Prien, Heinrich Bleichrodt, Joachim Schepke and Engelbert Endrass were responsible. The official account can be found in 'The Battle of the Atlantic: The Official Account of the Fight Against the... Mehr ...