Abstract
This article examines H.M.S. Warrior's role in transporting several thousand refugees from North to South Vietnam, which was part of a much larger evacuation of people that followed the Geneva Conference of 1954 and the partition of Vietnam at the seventeenth parallel. Although Warrior only moved a relatively small number of Vietnamese, the story of the ship's involvement in this episode offers not only a birds-eye view of the refugee exodus but also an insight into Britain's broader diplomatic interests in South East Asia. Drawing on archival records and oral interviews, the article explores events from the perspective of both the policy makers who sent Warrior to Indochina and the sailors who participated in the mission.
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