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| 2222 | WARD, Peter. From Africa to the Arctic: A Year on the Destroyer HMS Beagle During WWII. x, 86p., bibliog., illus. Studley: Brewin, 2003. ISBN: 1858582377.
He was a Leading Seaman Radar aged 21 and this memoir is based on his contemporary diary. She sailed to Freetown in mid-1943 and was based there as an escort. Late in the year she moved back to the UK for Arctic convoys, starting with JW54B. After RA59 she moved back to the UK for D-Day. The diary concludes at the end of June 1944. |
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| 2223 | WINGATE, John. HMS Campbeltown (USS Buchanan) (Profile Warship, 5). 97–121pp., bibliog., illus. Windsor: Profile Publications, 1971.
Another good account of a famous ship from this well-illustrated part work/series. Concentrates heavily on the St. Nazaire Raid. |
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| 2224 | Afloat and Ashore with the Fourth Escort Group. 79p., illus. [n.p.: n.d., c.1945].
A privately published selection of fact and fiction from the members of the group which consisted of Captain Class frigates and served from 1943–1945. A sort of school magazine. |
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| 2225 | COLLINGWOOD, Donald. The Captain Class Frigates in the Second World War: An Operational History of the American-Built Destroyer Escorts Serving under the White Ensign from 1943–46. xvi, 208p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Cooper, 1998. ISBN: 1557501955.
Some 78 "DE's" joined the RN under Lend–Lease. The author served in one of them and has contacted many former colleagues to produce a loving and detailed tribute to their work. |
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| 2226 | ELLIOTT, Peter. American Destroyer Escorts of World War 2. 128p., illus. London: Almark, 1974. ISBN: 0855241616.
The story of the famous "DEs". Some 78 were transferred to the RN as Captain Class frigates; they are well-illustrated and described. |
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| 2227 | FRANKLIN, Bruce Hampton. The Buckley-Class Destroyer Escorts. [xiv], 210p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Chatham; Annapolis: NIP, 1999. ISBN: 186176118X.
The author has scoured the archives for photographs and plans of these ships - the Captain Class frigates in the RN. The book provides a mixture of design history and operational history. |
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| 2228 | GIBSON, David. Battle in the Irish Sea: The Life and Death of HMS Manners. 112p., bibliog., illus. Liskeard: Maritime, 1993. ISBN: 0952143208.
Her A/S Officer describes Manners short life with much attention given to her sinking and subsequent events in which 19 U-boats were sunk in the Irish Sea and its approaches early in 1945. |
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| 2229 | GRIFFITHS, Bernard. Macnamara's Band. 192p. London: Kimber, 1960.
A popular account of the war service of HMS Duff. Launched in 1943, she was first a training ship, then took part in the patrols off the Normandy beachhead before moving to Harwich to work with MTBs in the North Sea. The title refers to the popular song, adopted by the ship as its own. Originally published in softcover, a hardback was published by Severn House in 1976 (ISBN: 0727801767). |
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| 2230 | HAGUE, Arnold. Sloops: A History of the 71 Sloops Built in Britain and Australia for the British, Australian and Indian Navies 1926–1946. 124p, illus., index. Kendal: World Ship Society, 1993. ISBN: 0905617673.
A detailed and well-illustrated account of each ship's building, equipment, and service. |
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| 2231 | HICKINBOTTOM, George. The Seven Glorious H.M.S. Amethyst's 1793-1956. 302p., illus. Dudley: author, 1994.
A curious jumbled and rambling account, all in block capitals, but with some interesting illustrations. |
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| 2232 | LAVERY, Brian. River Class Frigates and the Battle of the Atlantic: A Technical and Social History. 256p., bibliog., illus., index. London: National Maritime Museum, 2006. ISBN: 0948065737.
A good technical guide to how the ships worked and were manned, with some limited operational information. |
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| 2233 | MONSARRAT, Nicholas. HM Frigate. 75p., illus. London: Cassell, 1946.
The concluding volume of his lightly dramatised war career. |
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| 2234 | MUNRO, A.D. HMS/HQS Wellington. ix, 106p., bibliog., illus. London: Wellington Trust, 2006. ISBN: 0955340500.
This small volume gives a full record of her RN service, including a busy war, before she became the Headquarters Ship of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners, moored in the Thames. |
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| 2235 | OULD, Vic. Last But Not Least: HMS Goodall, Torpedoed 29 April 1945: Recollections of Survivors. [vi], 62p., illus. Fleet Hargate: Arcturus, 2004. ISBN: 090732293X. Goodall was a Captain Class frigate and the last RN ship sunk in the European theatre, in April 1945. A series of accounts of the sinking from her survivors and members of accompanying ships in the Arctic convoy RA66. Also available since 2013 as a print on demand volume from New Generation Publishing, ISBN: 9780755215843. |
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| 2236 | OULD, Vic. The Life and Death of HMS Bullen: Memories of Some Survivors. [iv], 56p., illus. Fleet Hargate: Arcturus, 1998. Bullen was a Captain Class frigate which began service at the start of 1944 and was sunk in the Atlantic at year's end, off Cape Wrath. A series of accounts of the sinking from her survivors and members of accompanying ships in the escort group. A revised edition was published in 2002 (ISBN: 0907322689). Also available since 2013 as a print on demand volume from New Generation Publishing, ISBN: 9781785073557 |
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| 2237 | REED, Ken. The Hand-Me-Down Ships. x, 181p. Spalding: [author], 1993. ISBN: 0952238705.
The author served on Totland as an Ordinary Seaman. He now records the war careers of each of the 10 US Coastguard cutters transferred to the RN. |
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| 2238 | RUEGG, R. A. Isle of Skye to Morotai on His Majesty's Service: The Story of HMS Loch Scavaig, Unassuming Frigate. 90p. [Walmer: author], 1984.
A personal account from a Temporary Sublieutenant RNVR of a ship commissioned in 1945. She served in the Western Approaches and then moved to the East Indies. |
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| 2239 | WILLIAMS, G. J. HMS Wellington: One Ship's War. 223p., illus. Hanley Swan: Self Publishing Association, 1992. ISBN: 1854211668.
A lower deck view of life on a sloop mainly engaged on long haul escort work on the Atlantic or Gibraltar Runs. Also does justice to the runs ashore. |
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| 2240 | Allied Landing Craft of World War II. 1 vol., various paginations., illus. London: Arms & Armour, 1984; Annapolis: NIP, 1985. ISBN: 0853686874.
A reprint of a wartime US intelligence manual, edited by A. D. Baker. It describes the vessels in use. |
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| 2241 | The Story of HMS Glengyle 1940–1946. 16p., illus. [n.p.: n.p., 1947?].
A souvenir brochure from her builders describes her operational career. |
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