A Norwegian Tragedy That Spawned a French Wedding Tradition
November 11, 2017
A guest blog from Anne Gillespie Lewis: A century ago, the Norwegian cargo ship, the SS Ymer, was torpedoed by a German submarine off a small French island during World War I. An alarm went out and a 12-man lifeboat crew from the fishing island of Ile d’Yeu, off the west coast, set out to… More A Norwegian Tragedy That Spawned a French Wedding Tradition