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| 2122 | LEITH, Craig. Two Honourable Years. vi, 256p., frontis. Waterlooville: [author], 1993. ISBN: 0952098202.
A "factionalised" account of the author's service on Charybdis throughout her first and only commission. After work–up and a spell at Scapa she served in the Mediterranean. She returned to the UK at the end of 1942 for a refit then to be based briefly at Plymouth before returning to the Mediterranean for the various Allied landings. She returned to Plymouth in October 1943. At the end of October she was ambushed and sunk by German destroyers while on a sweep of the Bay of Biscay. An idealised and rose-tinted portrait of her service. |
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| 2123 | LENTON, H. T. British Cruisers (Navies of the Second World War). 160p., illus., index. London: Macdonald; New York: Doubleday, 1973. ISBN: 0356041387.
One of the small books in the series giving technical details. |
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| 2124 | LOFTHOUSE, Alistair. Shiny Sheff: The Story of Sheffield's Fighting Ships. x, 162p., illus. Sheffield: ALD Design & Print, 1998. ISBN: 1901587037.
A popular account of the three ships of name. Has some good original photographs and anecdotes. |
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| 2125 | LUSCOMBE, George. Total Germany. [xv], 81p., illus. Bishop Auckland: Pentland, 1999. ISBN: 1858216370.
Luscombe joined the RN in 1930. By September 1939 he was Leading Tel on Manchester sweltering in Aden. Essentially an account of his life on Manchester until just before her sinking in 1942. She had an active war and served in the thick of the action in most theatres. Has a lot of information on the mechanics of signalling. |
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| 2126 | McCART, Neil. Town Class Cruisers. x, 334p., illus. Liskeard: Maritime Press, 2012. ISBN: 1023397102.
In effect an essay on each of the ten ships of class, giving a detailed account of their career. |
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| 2127 | OTTER, Ken. HMS Gloucester: The Untold Story. [x], 182p., bibliog., illus. Durham: G. A. M. Books, 1999. ISBN: 0952219425. Otter's father was Chief Yeoman of Signals on Gloucester. A full operational history, which looks unblinkingly but without rancour at her sinking and the heavy loss of life that ensued. A second enlarged edition was published in 2001. Further reprinted several times by Pen & Sword Books. |
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| 2128 | POOLE, S. L. Cruiser: A History of British Cruisers from 1889 to 1960. 207p., illus., index. London: Hale, 1970. ISBN: 0709113447.
About half of this work is devoted to a potted naval history of WWII naval actions in which cruisers were involved. The career of Exeter is followed in some detail. |
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| 2129 | RAVEN, Alan, & LENTON, H. T. Dido Class Cruisers (Ensign 2). [56]p., illus. London: Bivouac Books, 1973. ISBN: 0856800031.
A detailed technical account. |
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| 2130 | RAVEN, Alan, & ROBERTS, John. British Cruisers of World War Two. 449p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Arms & Armour; Annapolis: NIP, 1980. ISBN: 0853683042.
A profusely illustrated and detailed account by two well-known authors in this field. It gives both a technical and operational review of the RN's cruisers from 1912 to 1959. |
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| 2131 | RAVEN, Alan, & ROBERTS, John. County Class Cruisers (Man o' War, 1). 56p., illus. Brooklyn: RSV Publishing, 1979.
An excellent technical history. |
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| 2132 | RAVEN, Alan, & ROBERTS, John. Town Class Cruisers (Ensign 5). 52p., illus. London: Bivouac, 1975. ISBN: 0856800082.
A profusely illustrated analysis of this class of ship, which includes brief details of their wartime careers. Later published as no. 5 in the Man o' War series. |
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| 2133 | SHAW, T. P. HMS Euryalus and the Fusiliers. [iv], 32p., illus. [n.p.: author, c.1986].
The association between Euryalus and the then Lancashire Fusiliers began at Gallipoli, when her boats crews towed them ashore with heavy losses. There is a little material on WWII. |
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| 2134 | SIMS, George. HMS Coventry, Anti-Aircraft Cruiser: A Narrative. vi, 137, [24]p., illus. London: HMS Coventry Old Hands, 1972. ISBN: 0950229008.
A log of the ship and memoir of her war career. |
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| 2135 | SMITH, Oliver M. HMS Belfast. 32p., illus. London: Macmillan, 1971. ISBN: 0333134567.
Produced for the trust preserving the ship. A brief account of the role of cruisers in general and Belfast in particular is given. The illustrations of war art are excellent. |
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| 2136 | SMITH, Peter C., & DOMINY, John. Cruisers in Action 1939–1945. 320p., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1981; Annapolis: NIP, 1983. ISBN:
Examines the wartime roles of the British cruiser. Each role from trade protection to anti-aircraft cover is discussed in turn. |
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| 2137 | ST CLAIR, Adrian. Mediterranean Minefield: Disaster of HMS Neptune, The Sinking of HM Ships Neptune and Kandahar. The Fifth Worst Loss of Life in a Royal Navy Ship in WWII. The Mediterranean Force K, Inclusive of HM Ships Aurora, Penelope, Lance, Lively, Havock. December 19th and 20th 1941. A Pictorial Tribute. 96p., bibliog., illus. [n.p.]: Neptune Association, 2005. Largely consists of pictures and one or two sentence accounts of the eight hundred and thirty-six officers and men lost in the sinkings. An enlarged second edition was published in 2010 (ISBN: 0955038715). This includes a separate photographic supplement. |
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| 2138 | TAVERNER, Nixie. Neptune's Legacy: the Ship and Those Who Sailed in Her, 1934-41. x, 292p., illus. Fleet Hargate : Arcturus Press, 2003. ISBN: 0907322867.
Neptune ran into a minefield off the coast of Tripoli during the night of 19th December 1941, and was lost with all hands except one, thus becoming one of the Royal Navy's most catastrophic disasters of WW2. Some 150 of the casualties were New Zealanders, on board in preparation for the planned handover of the ship to the Royal New Zealand Navy early in 1942. |
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| 2139 | THOMAS, David A., & HOLMES, Patrick. Queen Mary and the Cruiser: The Curacoa Disaster. xii, 196p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Cooper, 1997. ISBN: 0850525489.
Queen Mary accidentally rammed and sank her escorting cruiser in 1942. A full account of the tragedy, in which Holmes was one of two surviving officers. |
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| 2140 | TONKS, Randall A. R. HMS Exeter (Profile Warship, 13). 1–24pp., bibliog., illus. Windsor: Profile Publications, 1972.
A short history of the ship, fullest on the River Plate action. |
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| 2141 | TWEED, Harold. A Life Revealed: The Story of HMS Dido and the War Diaries of Harold Tweed, Reporter and Antique Dealer. vi, 211p., bibliog., illus., index. Portsmouth: Dido Publications, 1998. ISBN: 0953331202.
Harold Tweed was born in 1910 and after school joined the local newspaper. When called up in 1941 he inevitably joined the Writers Branch. The diaries begin in 1942 and continue to March 1945. They give an interestingly detached and literate lower deck account of life on a busy cruiser. |
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