| Entry Text: | FORSYTH-GRANT, Michael. Courage in Adversity. xii, 229p., illus., index. Edinburgh: Pentland, 1990. ISBN: 0946270813.
As an RNVR midshipman, he went straight to King Alfred when war was declared. He served first on the drifter Shower based at Loch Ewe, then in late 1940 went to Tynedale which was based at Portsmouth then Plymouth for coastal convoy work. In mid-1941 he was transferred to Coastal Forces and after training took command of ML 292. He transferred to MASB 39 in Essex and spent eight months on air sea rescue work then moved to MGB 9 at Ramsgate and later MGB 118. After heavy action he took over MTB 435, ran her aground and was court-martialled and dismissed his ship. He was promptly appointed as a junior officer on Musketeer and by May 1944 was her gunnery officer on Arctic convoys. At the end of the year he moved to a staff job in Freetown, where he stayed until the end of the war. An interesting memoir from an avowedly difficult character. |
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