| Entry Text: | BROOKE, Geoffrey. Alarm Starboard! A Remarkable True Story of the War at Sea. 280p., illus. Cambridge: PSL, 1982. ISBN: 0850595789.
He began the war as a midshipman on Nelson. He joined Douglas in 1940 at Gibraltar after his Sublieutenant's course. She returned to the UK after Mers-el-Kebir and he then joined Prince of Wales, serving from her commissioning to sinking. After an astonishing escape from Singapore to Ceylon he joined the new Bermuda and took part in Operation Torch. A short spell at the Boys Training School in the Isle of Man was followed by service in Indomitable and Formidable in the Pacific. |
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