Entry Text: | GREEN, Colin. Sea Green Reflections: An Autobiography Written by a Bottom of the Barrel Sailor. 192p., illus. Leeds: Sea Green Publications, c.2000. ISBN: 1899661212.
The author joined up in 1940 and trained as a signalman. After training he went to the USA to commission Lincoln. At the end of 1941 he was transferred to the East Indies to Scout then the minesweeper Tewera. He returned to the UK to commission the new destroyer Zephyr, where he saw out the war. Strongest on his experience of naval life. |
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