| Entry Text: | GREENWOOD, Sydney. Stoker Greenwood's Navy. 186p., illus. London: Midas, 1982; New York: Hippocrene, 1983. ISBN: 0859361152.
Describes the naval career of a regular, from the 1930s to the 1950s. During the war he served on Hero in the Mediterranean and South Atlantic, briefly on Fiji while she worked up, on L'Incompromise in Portsmouth, on London and Campbeltown. In late 1942 he went to the US to join Ilex, which was refitting there. She moved to the Mediterranean in 1943 and when she paid off at Malta in 1944 he joined Paladin at Colombo and served in her until the end of the war. An amusing if vague account of life on the lower deck. |
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