| Entry Text: | MOORE, Robert J. A Hard Fought Ship: The Story of HMS Venomous. [xv], 135, [7]p., illus. Loughborough: [author], 1990. ISBN: 0951568302. Recommissioned in 1939, she saw service at Dunkirk, East Coast convoys, Atlantic convoys, PQ15, Pedestal, and post-Torch Mediterranean convoys. She spent the last year of the war as a crash tender for FAA training in Scotland, but was involved in the liberation of Norway before being paid off. A revised edition was published in 2010 by Holywell House Publishing, but is a substantially new work (ISBN: 0955938207). A hardback edition with five new chapters, a hundred more pages and many new photographs was published in April 2017 (ISBN 9780955938245). |
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