Thanks Cliff..
If it is any help to Gilbert, here's the website of
the Tilawa 1942 team:
www.tilawa1942.com
I'm not sure whether I will be able to attend the commemoration
in November in Bombay.
Cliff - do you have anything new to add on the TILAWA story?
Thanks
Mervyn
On Sun, 4 Sept 2022 at
Thanks Fred for the link which has detailed accounts of the
Britannia and Thor with no mention of the TILAWA for which this
80th commemoration is being held in Bombay this November.
The organisers are very keen that I attend in person - but
that has to remain in the lap of the Gods!
I
Dear Gilbert,
I have done a lot of work on Chinese, African and Goan seamen in the two world
wars. This is on-going (and unfunded or academically supported) work. I have
given talks on the subject in Canada, the UK and Hong Kong and have appeared on
TV documentaries and YouTube on this subject
Thanks for re-igniting this Rico, after almost 17years.
As you know I am still working (when I have the time) on this huge project of
cataloguing the vessels and those Goan, Anglo-Indians and Mangloreans who died
in the two world wars at sea.
I did do some archival research for Melvyn after
It has been discussed (including in cyberspace), in bits and pieces. But
not particularly here, as this space is focussed on books. However, here's
a link to the work of Melvyn Misquita, almost exactly 20 years back. The
book however never got published, though he did put it out on a
I have today been approached by the individuals
who want to commemorate this event.
The S.S. TILAWA is the ship on which I lost my
parents and three very young siblings in 1942 when the ship was
torpedoed by the Japanese while on its voyage from
Bombay to East Africa..There were several
