Torpedoed

About the Book

What happens when a cargo of ten thousand tons of high-octane benzine explodes?

What happens when men jump into a sea that is ablaze?

What happens when sixty-foot waves and ninety-miles-an-hour winds batter ships in the middle of the North Atlantic?

What happens when a convoy of loaded tankers is sent, under-protected, across an ocean in which U-boat wolf packs are waiting for prey?

And what happens when submarines are driven under by warships, and attacked with depth charges?

These are some of the questions to which the authors provide answers in a book that is gripping, and bursting with character and incident as it lifts the lid on the Battle of the Atlantic.

It is a compelling account of the brutal reality of war, disturbing, fascinating, and full of human drama.

The work of two men with fair and open minds, it brings the Battle of the Atlantic vividly to life, told from both the Allie and the Axis sides.

And it tells the terrible story of Special Oil Convoy T.M. 1. which was destroyed by U-boats in 1943, and which may have been deliberately sacrificed.

About the Author

LIAM NOLAN is an internationally published author whose books include Small Man of Nanataki, The Pain and the Glory, Islanders, The Forgotten Famine, The Savage Square and Once in August Loing Ago. He is a former radio and television (BBC, ITV and RTE) anchorman in current affairs and sport; has been at various times reporter, columnist, international editor, features editor, and sports editor. He lives with his wife Oonagh, in the West of Ireland. Liam and his brother John pooled their complementary talents and interests to jointly research, develop and co-author this book to record for posterity the strange story of Special Oil Convoy T.M. 1..

JOHN E. NOLAN, the Companies Man, with his wife Breda, pioneered Express Companies Registration services on a commercial basis in Ireland, in 1968 until his retirement in 2004. With his brother Liam, he has edited, produced and written for the prestigious newsletter of the Olympic Council of Ireland covering two Olympiads. John has personally edited and in the 1990's, digitally produced the journal of an Irish nationwide fraternal organization, four-times p.a.for several years.

This book, TORPEDOED, stemmed from an original idea conceived by John to hopefully provide closure for their elderly mother Molly-a 30-page, internet-researched, desktop-produced, memorial of the final voyage of her brother John Queally Sexton, a young Cork marine engineer whose tanker was torpedoed by U-boat in 1943, whilst en route from Trinidad to the Mediteranean carrying fuel for the Allied invasion of North Africa in World War II.