Derek Law's Bibliography

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ARNOTT, Robert H., & SMITH, Ronald L. Captain of the Queen. ii, 332p., illus. Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1982. ISBN: 0450048918.

The autobiography of a captain of the Queen Elizabeth II. He joined the Merchant Navy in 1940 and the first sixty pages describe his exuberant but relatively trouble-free wartime career as a midshipman and junior officer with the Blue Funnel Line.