| Entry Text: | STEWART, James Douglas. But No Brass Funnel. vi, 249p., bibliog., illus. Latheronwheel: Whittles, 2004. ISBN: 1904445101.
An autobiography. As war broke out he left school and became a cadet in the British India Steam Navigation Company, as a back door route into the Royal Navy. After sixteen months at sea – including the Dakar operation – he was accepted as a Midshipman in late 1941 at Greenwich and by March 1942 had joined Euryalus at Alexandria and was very quickly involved in the Battle of Sirte. He soon transferred to the small minesweeper Lord Irwin based at Beirut. In August he moved to Erica and stayed with her until she was sunk off Benghazi in February 1943. After a brief two weeks on the anti-aircraft control ship Antwerp, he was appointed to Delphinium performing Mediterranean convoy work. In September 1944 he returned to the UK and joined Tavy quickly taking part in an Arctic convoy before being based at Gibraltar. In June 1945 he moved to Cockatrice and was demobbed early in 1946 soon returning to a successful career in the Merchant Navy. |
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