During the first months of World War Two a young mother had decided to leave London and return home to Ireland where she felt much safer.

She took with her a six-year-old daughter and 2-year-old baby son but the youngster refused to settle in his bunk for the night. In desperation she threatened to 'put him out of the porthole' if he didn't stop crying and that seemed to work as the baby quietened down.

With that she went into the dining room for an evening meal but when she returned the porthole was open, the baby was missing and the little girl slept peacefully in her bunk after, apparently carrying out her mother's threat.