March 9, 2006 - Among its 406 passengers and crew members, The S.S. City of Benares was carrying 90 children to the safety of Canada from England during World War II. But on Sept. 17, 1940, when the ship was 630 miles out to sea, a German submarine attacked the ship. "World News Tonight" senior producer Tom Nagorski recounts the harrowing tale of how some of the passengers managed to survive in his new book, "Miracles of the Water."
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