
25/01/2025
For Islanders who had been existing on around half the calories necessary for a ‘normal’ diet, it is difficult to imagine the sense of relief the SS Vega’s arrival brought on 30 December 1944.
Stephen Blease looks back at the vital deliveries that took place…
THE Second World War officially ended in Europe exactly 80 years ago this May.But months earlier the Germans realised that the game was up.The previous June […]