IN late December 1941 Lt Alastair Cram slipped un-noticed out of the Castelvetrano PoW camp in Sicily. His audacious plan was to head for the mountains then for the coast, where he would steal a fishing boat and sail the 125 miles to Malta. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16266937.The_quiet_Scot_who_turned_into_one_of_the_war___s_great_escapers/