Survivors Alba
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Survivors Alba

SS Alba. Survivors gathered at the Salvation Army Hall St Ives 1938
Considering the hell they had been through, these men have been marked with fear, they lost two crewmates, when the two men assisted passengers to survive the overturning of the lifeboat. They were a Hungarian crew.
 
8pm 31st January 1938; 37,000 ton Panamanian MV Alba.
Captain Joseph Horvath;
En route Barry to Civitavecchia with coal
piled into Portmeor swept in by driving breakers onto Portthmeor Beach.
 

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