SS Gairsoppa rescue children found in Norfolk
A brother and sister who helped rescue the sole survivor of the British SS Gairsoppa which was torpedoed by a German U-Boat in 1941 have been traced to Norfolk.
Evacuees Denis Driver and Betty Broughton, now in their late 80s, pulled second officer Richard Ayres ashore off the Cornish coast - 13 days after the ship sank in Irish waters.
Three members of the 850-strong crew survived in a lifeboat and reached Caerthillian Cove in Cornwall, but two died trying to get ashore.
BBC Look East's Debbie Tubby reports.
23 Apr 2014
- From the section England