| Entry Text: | GRAINGER, John D. 13 Sharks: The Careers of a Series of Small Royal Navy Ships from the Glorious Revolution to D-Day. x, 233p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2016. ISBN: 1473877245. Brief biographies of each of the thirteen ships of name. the submarine Shark served in northern waters in 1939-40 and was sunk in June of that year in the Skaggerak. A destroyer of the name was launched in 1943. Renamed Svenner she was transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy and sunk off the French coast during Operation Neptune. |
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