From Baird Maritime:
By early 1941 Britain was desperate. German U-boat "wolf packs" were smashing the convoys of ships bringing supplies from North America.
Crews were going down with their ships and could not be replaced quickly enough. So desperate in fact, were the British, that when someone came up with the idea of bolstering the Merchant Navy with convicts from a Glasgow prison, it was agreed to.
They were thieves and cut throats but some of them, five in particular, the Bridgeton Boys, actually turned out to be quite useful. This is their very strange story.
Ordering Information:
Conway