| Entry Text: | THWAITES, Michael. Atlantic Odyssey. viii, 215p., illus. Oxford: New Cherwell, 1999. ISBN: 1900312301.
The wartime autobiography of the poet. He served in trawlers. After training he joined Northern Dawn based at Belfast in 1940. On promotion to Lieutenant in 1941 he joined Gavotte as First on local convoy duty, but soon moved to Wastwater. Most of the book concerns her 20-month peregrination around the Atlantic from Iceland to New York, Brazil, and West Africa. A lively well-written memoir. |
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