| Entry Text: | DICKSON, A. F. Seafaring: A Chosen Profession. vii, 166p., illus. Edinburgh: Donald, 1996. ISBN: 0859764567.
Born in 1920, he joined the merchant navy as a cadet and the RNR as a midshipman in 1938. In September 1939 he joined Delhi on the Northern Patrol. When she paid off in January 1940 he joined Keppel at Gibraltar. He was at Oran and the evacuations from the South of France. She was then based at Greenock on North Atlantic convoy work with the odd Mediterranean run. Keppel took part in PQ17 and Pedestal then went for a refit at which point he joined the new destroyer Relentless. After a spell at Scapa she joined the Eastern Fleet at Trincomalee. In 1945 he returned to the UK for a gunnery course then briefly commanded Anthony. An enjoyable but rather vague set of anecdotes. |
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