Entry Text: | DENTON, Eric. My Six Wartime Years in the Royal Navy. 284p. London: Minerva, 1999. ISBN: 0754104389.
He joined up in September 1939. After training he joined Havelock. In April 1941 he went to King Alfred for training and was then posted to ML 273 as First Officer. In late 1942 she went to the Mediterranean and he soon switched to ML 338. In late 1943 he was given command of ML 134 which undertook a lot of minesweeping before he was appointed to Coastal Forces staff at Malta. In late 1945 he returned to courses and shore posts in the UK before demob in 1946. |
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