Paperback. Pub Date: 2007 Pages: 368 in Publisher: Hyperion On September 17. 1940 the itish liner SS City of Benares. the was sailing in the North Atlantic with more than four hundred people on board; they were considered lucky-leaving World War II behind and heading for peace. quiet. and security. At a little after ten o'clock that night. a German submarine torpedoed the Benares. Mind-bending examples of courage and endurance took shape in the hours and days that followed the attack . the children in particular exhibiting what one naval officer later called courage beyond praise. Based on firsthand accounts from the child survivors and other passengers. including the author's great-uncle. Miracles on the Water is a vivid retelling of that fateful voyage in wartime- a story of