| Entry Text: | SQUIRES, Harold. s.s Eagle: The Secret Mission 1944–1945. xii, 113p., illus. St. John's, Nfld.: Jesperson, 1992. ISBN: 0921692374.
A charming little tale of the last of the wooden-walled Newfoundland seal steamers. She was chartered to carry an expedition from Canada and the Falklands to Graham Land in Antarctica, to re-establish a base and by extension British Sovereignty. It proved both dangerous and exhilarating. |
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