| Entry Text: | RITCHIE, G. S. No Day Too Long - An Hydrographer's Tale. xiv, 250p., illus., index. Edinburgh: Pentland, 1992. ISBN: 1872795633.
The author became Hydrographer of the Navy. In 1939 he was on Franklin, responsible for the Channel Mine Barrage, followed by a diet of Scapa, the Faröes, and wreck surveying off the East Coast. In January 1942 he moved to Endeavour in the Middle East to survey the Great Bitter Lakes then the Mediterranean Coast. He then joined a Mobile Survey Unit, which surveyed ports in Sicily and Italy. By February 1944 he was First Lieutenant of Scott, which worked in support of the D-Day Landings and in surveying the liberated French Ports. |
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