hey that's amazing Arebi - great to get some response as well. Did you know that the U-533 in fujairah had one survivor who actually made it and swam over 28 nautical miles back to shore? He died only a couple of years back, lived to over 70 to tell his tale.
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Dear buddy
[color=black]This is a copy of the massage that we have received yesterday from one of the loved relatives of the HMS P32 lost crews :[/COLOR
I was very touched to read your story on this website. My father was W H Martin the submarine ERA who was lost after escaping from the conning tower of the P32.
We have done some research on this for our family but never expected to see photographs of the conning tower hatch that he struggled so hard to open in his determination to escape.
My mother told me that he was never a good swimmer and to reach the surface from the seabed was just too much. I was a small child at the time and so have no memory of him but my mother remained in love with him all her life until her death 10 years ago.
Thank you Arebi for doing this research after all this time and showing us where a much loved man spent his last moments trying to get back to his beloved family.
This is always a very poignant time for us with Remembrance Sunday being this weekend and just a month away from his birthday - when he would have been 99.
Thank you again and may the submariners who did not escape from the ship rest in peace.
Pamela
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