San Demetrio London

In 1940, a British merchant navy ship is disabled and left to the mercy of patrolling U-boats. The crew must now keep her afloat and out of harm’s way., Highly regarded Ealing war drama praising the never-say-die spirit of the allied everyman. Based on a real event, this stirring adaptation of F Tennyson Jesse’s official account tells how a group of lowly Merchant Navy sailors saved the San Demetrio oil tanker after it was almost destroyed by a U-boat, braving fire and ocean to sail the vessel 900 miles to the safety of a Scottish port., The San Demetrio is a British Merchant Marine vessel, traversing the Atlantic shipping channels in early 1940. The ship is disabled at sea, and thus left at the mercy of marauding Axis U-boats. The courageous crew manages to keep the San Demetrio afloat and guide it out of harm’s way. San Demetrio, London is stylistically linked to the jingoistic “England Can Take It!” efforts of the wartime years. Despite its most ludicrous passages, the film is firmly based on fact (or at least the facts as related by author F. Tennyson Jesse)., A salute to the British merchant marine. Walter Fitzgerald, Mervyn Johns, Robert Beatty, Ralph Michael. Charles Frend directed., The tanker ‘San Demetrio London’ struggles to deliver its cargo of aviation fuel to England during the battle of the Atlantic.