The "Les Oubliés du Meknès" association has been working since 2009 in memory of the sailors who survived and disappeared on the Meknès liner torpedoed in 1940.
On Wednesday July 24, 1940, 1179 officers and sailors (including 2 officer?s wives and a child) and 103 crewmen boarded the Meknès for France, expecting to be reunited with their loved ones and demobilized.
It was 11 p.m. off Portland, and the Meknès was sailing under clear lights, the tricolored flags painted on each side of her...