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Sunday Miscellany: The Kerlogue, by Fran O'Rourke

On the amazing story of an Irish merchant ship and it's role in world War II naval history... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to The Kerlogue by Fran O'Rourke above.

Not long ago, a German lady named Beatrice Karsch, who was very dear to me and my family, died, aged 98.

The story of my connection with Beatrice and her husband Hans-Helmut goes back to the Bay of Biscay, at the height of the Second World War, and a major international incident that has gone down in Irish naval history...

Listen to more from Sunday Miscellany here.

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