| Entry Text: | RADFORD, J. Pilot Aboard. viii, 319p., illus. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1966. ISBN: 0851580211. The author first went to sea in the merchant service in 1916 and served in a number of ships until 1935 when he joined the Pilotage Service at Southampton. In 1939 he was called up and served in Carnarvon Castle for six months, mainly in the South Atlantic. He was next appointed to Dunluce Castle, an accommodation ship at Scapa, where he stayed until 1944, latterly acting as Fleet Compass Officer. He returned south in 1944 to use his pilotage skills in the run-up to the invasion of Europe. |
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