At 9.42am on this day in 1940 the Nazi sub U-37 torpedoed steamer Stancliffe off the Shetland Islands. Skipper Henry Herbert and 21 crew perished.
It was the only British loss of life at sea that day, one tragedy amid many over the next five years of war. And at the end of it the British were a changed people.
Today we are in another war and, like the Stancliffe, against an unseen enemy. The casualty figures of around 800 every 24 hours coming back from the coronavirus frontline are three times higher than the daily average 80 years ago.
Some other concerns back then are eerily familiar. The Economist magazine of 12th April 1940 worried about how business would recover.
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