| Entry Text: | FISHER, R. L. Salt Horse: A Naval Life. 205p., illus. [Lochgilphead: author, 1986].
A happy autobiography. During the war he commanded Wakeful until sunk at Dunkirk. He next joined Pridham-Wippell's staff in the Mediterranean, where he was at Matapan then closely involved in the Greek and Cretan evacuations. After the Second Battle of Sirte there followed a spell setting up port operations as the 8th Army advanced. He then took command of Musketeer in 1943, mainly on Arctic convoys, and helped sink the Scharnhorst. In November 1944 he took four M class destroyers to the Aegean and was soon embroiled in the Greek Civil War. His war ended in the Plans Division of the Admiralty. |
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