| Entry Text: | LE BAILLY, Louis. The Man Around the Engine: Life Below the Waterline. 186p., illus., index. Emsworth: Mason, 1990. ISBN: 0859373541.
Admiral Le Bailly went to Dartmouth in 1929. In 1939 he was serving in Hood, but at the end of the year joined the then building Naiad. She spent the second half of 1940 based at Scapa, then after a refit moved to the Mediterranean, where she was damaged in the evacuation of Crete and finally sunk in March 1942 on a Malta convoy. He spent the next two years as Professor of Marine Engineering at Keyham and at the beginning of 1945 joined Duke of York, which was bound for the Pacific Fleet and attended the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. The final third of the book describes his postwar career. |
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