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The Sinking of the Laconia
The Sinking of the Laconia is a two-part television film, first aired on 6 and 7 January 2011 on BBC Two, about the Laconia incident; the sinking of the British ocean liner RMS "Laconia" during World War II by a German U-boat, which then, together with three other U-boats and an Italian submarine, rescued the passengers but was in turn attacked by an American bomber.
The film is a British-German co-production, written by
in all around 1,500 survived the sinking. Other sources state that only 1,083 survived and an estimated 1,658 persons died (98 crew members, 133 passengers, 33 Polish guards and 1,394 Italian prisoners).
Amongst the French ships involved in the rescue were , and .
Media.
On 6 and 7 January 2011, BBC2 in the United Kingdom broadcast "The Sinking of the Laconia", a two-part dramatisation of the sinking of "Laconia". The sinking of the RMS Laconia was featured in the Animal