| Entry Text: | DALGLISH, J. S. The Life Story of a Fish. [vi], 336p., illus. London: Adelphi, 1992. ISBN: 1856540464.
A happy autobiography of 36 years at sea in everything from minesweepers to Britannia. "Fish" Dalglish went to Dartmouth in 1927. In late August 1939 he joined Kempenfelt in Portsmouth as Gunnery Officer of the 18DF. Less than a month later he was transferred to Excellent and spent four months there before joining Faulknor as Gunnery Officer of the 8DF. An arduous period followed in Norway then with Force H based at Gibraltar covering Mers-el-Kebir, club runs to Malta, the Dakar affair, sinking U 138 and the support ship Alstertor. A refit in the UK followed in late 1941 then came Home Fleet duty and a Russian convoy. In April 1942 he joined the gunnery school at Chatham and in late 1943 stood by the new cruiser Swiftsure. She commissioned in June 1944 and six months later joined the BPF in Sydney and served there until the end of the war. Almost 50 pages cover this period of his life. |
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