| Entry Text: | MACDONALD, Roderick. The Figurehead: A Story of Conflict and Loyalty at Sea in World War II. xxi, 201p., bibliog., illus. Edinburgh: Pentland, 1993. ISBN: 1858210569.
Life in the destroyer Fortune in 1941–43. Vice-Admiral Sir Roderick Macdonald, then a Sublieutenant, joined a ship run by a captain - the Figurehead - who if not actually mad was certainly an oddball and loner and everything a leader should not be. Her disreputable but successful career is fully recounted with some excellent illustrations from the author. |
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