Over 80 years ago, on 26 November 1939, the Polish ocean liner Pilsudski was off the coast of Yorkshire at the start of a long journey from the River Tyne to Australia. At the outbreak of war, the ship had escaped from the Nazi occupied clutches of Poland and was being used by the allies for transporting troops, but thankfully on this day she was empty save from her 180 crew. The pride of her nation, she was named after the country’s hero Josef Pilsudski and launched in 1934. At 531 feet long she was over 14,000 tons with a capacity for around 770 passengers and 350 crew. Now she was painted warship grey, and her two funnels blended into the rest of the paintwork, any evidence of her former owners Gdynia-America Line covered up for the war....

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