Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
Société Jersiaise - Liberation 80 Lunchtime Talks 2025
Société Jersiaise 7 Pier Road JE2 4XW Saint Helier
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In November 1943, bodies began washing ashore around Jersey’s coastline. They continued arriving for several days, with each sorrowful tide bringing more. From among the dead emerged a common identity – HMS
Charybdis
. It was a name that has become forever linked by tragedy to the Channel Islands. In this talk, historian Ian Ronayne will tell the story of a warship and her crew, a wartime battle and tragic loss and how Islanders responded under Occupation conditions and in the years that followed.