Tragedy of the Thetis; Seventy years ago, a shipyard apprentice watched the launch of the Thetis. A year later she dived, and 99 men died. Now that apprentice lives with his memories.(News)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | July 26, 2008 | Copyright

Byline: David Charters reports

THE sun rose like a yolk in the blue sky of high summer and the hens laid breakfast in their wooden garage by the Corporation house, where the young apprentice woke at 5.30 as usual.

This was good. He liked a boiled egg, before catching the tram to the railway station.

There, he would take the train to work. It ran under the river to the station, a little way up the hill from the big gates into the shipyard, which had brought glory and prosperity to the old town, though the wages of the men remained meagre.

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