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| 2082 | GOODWIN, Norman. Castle Class Corvettes: An Account of the Service of the Ships and of Their Ships' Companies. xiv, 530p., illus. Liskeard: Maritime Books, 2007. ISBN: 1904459277.
A grand gallimaufry of information about the class with as its backbone individual chronologies of each ship. |
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| 2083 | HARLAND, John H. Catchers and Corvettes: The Steam Whalecatcher in Peace and War 1860–1960. xii, 432p., bibliog., illus., index. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot, 1992. ISBN: 0948864095.
Only a small section of this book concerns corvettes and armed trawlers, but it has a very detailed descriptive text and comprehensive plans. An excellent if marginal publication. |
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| 2084 | HORABIN, Ron. Tribute to a Flower: HMS Bryony. 103p., illus. Manchester: author, 1996.
The author is a model maker turned amateur historian. He has assiduously assembled facts, memories and photographs to provide a competent history marred by atrocious proofreading. |
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| 2085 | LAMBERT, John. Warship Perspectives: Flower Class Corvettes in World War II. 96p., illus. Lynbrook, N.Y.: WR Press, 2000.
Illustrated with line drawings and photographs of various corvettes, including a major one of Anemone. |
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| 2086 | MONSARRAT, Nicholas. Corvette Command. 100p., illus. London: Cassell, 1944.
The third volume recounting his war career. |
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| 2087 | MONSARRAT, Nicholas. East Coast Corvette. 80p., illus. London: Cassell; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1943.
The second biographical volume is Monsarrat's jaunty account of his life as the First Lieutenant of a convoy escort. |
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| 2088 | MONSARRAT, Nicholas. H.M. Corvette. 92p., illus. London: Cassell; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1942.
The first biographical section of a wartime autobiography in what was to become a distinguished writing career. |
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| 2089 | MONSARRAT, Nicholas. Life is a Four-Letter Word. Volume 2: Breaking Out. [vii], 570p., illus. London: Cassell, 1970. ISBN: 184232148X
This volume of mature autobiography includes the author's war service, but concentrates on 1941 when he served in Campanula. An abridged version of both volumes of autobiography was published as Breaking In, Breaking Out by Morrow of New York in 1971. |
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| 2090 | MONSARRAT, Nicholas. Three Corvettes: Comprising HM Corvette, East Coast Corvette, Corvette Command. 268p., illus. London: Cassell, 1945.
A collected edition of the three works on corvettes published during the war and covering Monsarrat's war at sea 1940–43. Some of this grew into The Cruel Sea. Republished by Phoenix in 2000 (ISBN: 0304354449). |
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| 2091 | PERRETT, Bryan. U-Boat Hunter: Peter Rogers, HMS Arum 1939-1945. [My Story]. 176p., illus. London: Scholastic Children's Books, 2005. ISBN: 0439959381.
An attempt to recreate the battle of the Atlantic as seen from corvettes through the eyes of a fictional teenager. |
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| 2092 | PRESTON, Antony, & RAVEN, Alan. Flower Class Corvettes (Ensign 3). 57p., illus. London: Bivouac Books, 1973. ISBN: 085680004X.
A detailed technical description with many illustrations. Reprinted as Man o' War,7 in 1982 (ISBN: 0853685592). |
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| 2093 | WARD, John A. The Flower of Arnold: The Story of Arnold's Adopted Warship. 80p., illus. Ruddington: author, c.2006.
The town of Arnold adopted Pennywort in 1943. This reconstructs that link and her story, largely cut and pasted from newspaper accounts and some veterans' recollections. |
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| 2094 | WILKINS, Edward T. With a Flower Upon The Ocean: The Memoirs of a Man Dressed as a Matelot in World War Two. xx, 172p., illus. Birkenhead: Countyvise, 2004. ISBN: 1901231445.
An affectionate reconstruction of the career of Columbine and her cast of characters, as seen from the lower deck. |
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| 2095 | WILLANS, G. One Eye on the Clock. 178p., illus. London: Macmillan, 1944.
"A record of towns, people and friends." Memoirs of a RNVR officer. He served on Peony in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. In 1941 he moved to Formidable and immediately went with her to the US for repair. The book ends as he returns to the UK leading a draft of seamen. |
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| 2096 | HMS Kenya 1940-1945. 27p., illus. Derby: Bemrose & Sons, [1946].
A souvenir brochure prepared for the crew and by and for the city of Derby, which had adopted her. Gives a short but full and only slightly coy account of her war service. |
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| 2097 | HMS Mauritius 1940–1944. 96p., frontis. Ayr: Stephen & Pollock, 1945.
Edited by the Rev E. B. Henderson, this aims to describe wartime life aboard a cruiser. To do much more would risk censorship. Interesting but bland. |
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| 2098 | Our Penelope, by Her Company. 94p., illus. London: Harrap; New York: Scribner, 1943.
Originally privately printed. A mixture of songs, sketches, anecdotes, and fact, recording Penelope's career from refit in mid-1941 to her escape from Malta in mid-1942. US title: Our Penelope, June 1941–June 1942. It is clear from the introduction to the American edition that the major author was the ship's chaplain, John Palmer. |
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| 2099 | The Silver Phantom: HMS Aurora, by her Company. 93p., illus. London: Muller, 1945.
Aurora was at Narvik and in the Bismarck chase but won her eponymous nickname under Captain Agnew while leading Force K from Malta. The book goes on to cover Torch, Sicily, Salerno and ends in the Aegean where she was seriously damaged. |
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| 2100 | BALLANTYNE, Iain. HMS London (Warships of the Royal Navy). xi, 228p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cooper, 2003. ISBN: 0850528437.
This competent history concentrates on the Second World War cruiser and her exploits. |
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| 2101 | BASSETT, Ronald. HMS Sheffield: The Life and Times of "Old Shiny." 224p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Arms & Armour; Annapolis: NIP, 1988. ISBN: 0853689113.
A very detailed but popular ship biography of a distinguished and busy career which earned a dozen battle honours. |
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