Jupiter's Children
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (777 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0853237530 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Thank you I was employed as the ships nurse and experienced this terrifying ordeal along with so many others.I was left to swim for it with the last of the school children. It has been therapy for me to read through what my fellow passengers experienced that night. It was a miracle so many were saved but sad one girl, a teacher and two crew lost their lives.Thank you for supplying thi
"The reports give a moving catalogue of terrifying experience and individual courage Jupiter’s Children is the account of a violent rite of passage which forced children to put away childish things."—Times Education Supplement
In Jupiter’s Children, 16 girls, one boy and 12 adults from Cator Park School give their accounts of the events and their aftermath. On 21 October 1988 at 6.15pm the cruise liner Jupiter was sunk after a collision in the Aegean Sea with the Italian ship Adige. On board the Jupiter were 391 schoolchildren, 84 adults and 110 crew members. A teacher and a child were never found; two crew members died. Their stories are accompanied by photographs, letters, drawings and other documents."The reports give a moving catalogue of terrifying experience and