“
The
Lamoricière
had been fighting a terrible storm since nightfall. The crew displayed admirable courage and tenacity (...). It was around 11 o'clock in the morning that we had the impression that everything was over, that we had to give up the fight and that the evacuation was essential
”, recalls a survivor of the
Lamoricière
shipwreck , Maguy Courau-Dumond , questioned by the
Journal des Débats Politiques et Littéraires
, January 12, 1942. "
A first boat was put into the sea
," she continues, "
a monstrous wave lifted it up, then turned it over. (...) At 13:25, I threw myself into the water and I was able to reach another raft, on which had also been able to take placecrew
".
After five hours of weathering the storm, the raft was finally overturned by the waves.
The young woman finds herself again in the frozen waters of the Mediterranean.
“
We were struggling, frozen now, without strength.
It was the crew of an Aviso who managed, at the cost of superhuman efforts, to collect the ...
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