The great escape

Tuesday 16th January 2007, 12:00AM GMT.

ONE of the last surviving Islanders to escape the German Occupation by taking to the sea in a tiny boat has died at the age of 81.

In late 1944, Dr Michael Price and four friends spent 14 hours at sea, in darkness and at the mercy of the surging tidal races running between the Island and the French coast. He died on 6 January in Rock, north Cornwall. Dr Price was just a teenager when, in the autumn of 1944, he and a group of friends were planning their bid for freedom. They were 18 and 19 and dreamed of joining the Allied war effort. Frustration and a will to fight the Germans drove them to stick their necks out and go for it.

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