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October 30, 2017

#BHM – U-boats, Wales and West African Seamen

Photography by Iolanda Banu Viegas, Race Council Cymru.   After seeing our blog post for Black History Month last October which looked at the links between the U-boat War around the coast of Wales and West African seamen, Liz Millman, of Learning Links International, got in touch to ask us to present a talk at ...

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October 11, 2016

Black History Month: Commemorating WWI West African Merchant Seamen

West African crew members were among the dead when the Falaba and Apapa ships were torpedoed off the Welsh coast during the First World War. The Falaba was sunk by a German submarine on 28 March 1915, some 38 miles to the west of the Smalls, Pembrokeshire, on her way from Liverpool to Sierra Leone. Warning was given by...

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