| Entry Text: | WHELAN, John. Home Is the Sailor. 224p. London: Angus & Robertson, 1957.
An anecdotal autobiography from the lower deck. He began the war in Zulu, then joined Basilisk at Christmas 1939, was sunk at Dunkirk, joined the new Tynedale for East Coast convoys, became an asdic instructor and finally joined the depot ship Philoctetes at Freetown. |
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