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| 2282 | LUND, Paul, & LUDLAM, Harry. Trawlers Go to War: The Story of "Harry Tate's Navy." 271p., illus, index. London: Foulsham, 1971. ISBN: 057200768X. The Royal Naval Patrol Service, which went to sea in trawlers on all the seas of the world. Largely based on the reminiscences of some surviving participants. |
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| 2283 | MULLAY, A.J. For the King's Service: Railway Ships at War. 127p., bibliog., illus., index. Easingwold: Pendragon, 2008. ISBN: 9781899816163.
Covers both world wars in which the ships owned by the railway companies saw service as troopships, minesweepers, hospital ships and a host of roles, with some distinction. |
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| 2284 | NORTH, A. J. D. Royal Naval Coastal Forces 1939–1945: MTBs, MGBs, MA/SBs, MLs and HDMLs. 72p., illus. London: Almark, 1972.
Technical data on all the classes of small boat that served with Coastal Forces. |
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| 2285 | OGDEN, Graeme. My Sea Lady: The Story of HMS Lady Madeleine from February 1941 to February 1943. 201p., illus. London: Hutchinson, 1963. The autobiographical memoir of the RNVR Captain of an ocean- going A/S trawler. She was attached to the 4th Clyde Escort Force, and after escorting North Atlantic convoys the ship moved to the Arctic. She escorted PQ16 and returned with QP13, getting caught in the fringes of the PQ17 disaster. After more convoys, the author was hospitalised in Belfast in February 1943. |
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| 2286 | PARKER, Tim. Signalman Jones. Based on the Recollections of Geoffrey Holder-Jones. 135, [v]p., illus. Woodbridge: Seafarer; Dobbs Ferry, NY: Sheridan House, 2010. ISBN 97819062662194.
A biography. Having served in the RNVR, he was mobilised as a signalman in 1939 and posted to Adventure. When she was mined in November 1939 he was next posted to a minesweeping trawler at Scapa. He soon became a CW candidate and spent the rest of the war as an officer in trawlers and travelling from Spitsbergen to the Caribbean. An enjoyable account. |
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| 2287 | PLUMMER, Russell. Paddle Steamers at War 1939–1945. 64p., illus. Peterborough: GMS Enterprises, 1995. ISBN: 1870384393.
A well-illustrated ragbag of information on their war activities, principally as minesweepers. |
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| 2288 | REYNOLDS, Leonard C. Dog Boats at War: A History of the Royal Navy Operations of D Class Fairmile Motor Gunboats 1939–1945. x, 289p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Sutton Publishing in association with the Imperial War Museum, 1998. ISBN: 0750918179.
The author served on MGB 658 in the Mediterranean. A substantial addition to the fragmented official record on these powerful and hard-hitting boats. Contains much original material. |
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| 2289 | REYNOLDS, Leonard C. Home Waters MTBs & MGBs at War 1939-1945. xii, 204p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Sutton Publishing in association with the Imperial War Museum, 2000. ISBN: 0750925183.
Completes the trilogy with possibly the definitive account of operations in the English Channel and North Sea. A chronological account of their actions. |
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| 2290 | REYNOLDS, L. C., & COOPER, H. F. Mediterranean MTBs at War: Short MTB Flotilla Operations 1939–1945. xiv, 202p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Sutton, 1999. ISBN: 0750922745.
Probably a definitive account of these operations in the Mediterranean and Adriatic. Also includes an account of the MTB Flotilla in Hong Kong 1938–1941. |
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| 2291 | SEARLE, G. W. At Sea Level. 256p., illus. Lewes: Book Guild, 1994. ISBN: 0863328970.
Called up in 1939 he joined the AMC Forfar but within six months was selected for a commission. That autumn he joined the AMC Letitia but almost immediately transferred to Coastal Forces. He stood by HDML 1007 and took her to Egypt then Haifa and in 1942 took over ML 353 but quickly resumed command of HDML 1007. In mid-year he took over ML 355 which worked hard from Tobruk to the Dodecanese. In October he transferred to ML 349 and that December took over the 42nd ML Flotilla based in Beirut and operating in the Aegean. In March 1944 he returned to the UK where he took over ML 490 in time for D-Day. That autumn the flotilla moved to Grimsby then Ostend where he was present when a disastrous fire destroyed many craft. In June they went to the Baltic but soon returned to the UK to pay off. |
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| 2292 | SUTHERLAND, Jon & CANWELL, Diane. Churchill's Pirates: The Royal Naval Patrol Service in World War II. v, 244p., bibliog., illus. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Maritime, 2010. ISBN: 1848842562.
A largely derivative work consisting mainly of text, photos and factual appendices copied, often verbatim, from other authors and websites, apparently without permission. |
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| 2293 | THWAITES, Michael. Atlantic Odyssey. viii, 215p., illus. Oxford: New Cherwell, 1999. ISBN: 1900312301.
The wartime autobiography of the poet. He served in trawlers. After training he joined Northern Dawn based at Belfast in 1940. On promotion to Lieutenant in 1941 he joined Gavotte as First on local convoy duty, but soon moved to Wastwater. Most of the book concerns her 20-month peregrination around the Atlantic from Iceland to New York, Brazil, and West Africa. A lively well-written memoir. |
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| 2294 | VICARY, Adrian. HMS Cromer: The Story of the Town's Namesake Ships in the Royal Navy. 48p., illus. Cromer: [author], 1989. ISBN: 0951465406.
All but a few pages are devoted to the Bangor Class minesweeper, the second to bear the name. She took part in the Madagascar landings and was sunk in the Mediterranean in November 1942. |
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| 2295 | WRIGHT, Gerry. A War By Stealth: The Story of Lieutenant Walter C. Drake, DSC, RNZVNR During World War II. viii, 268p., illus., index. New Plymouth, NZ: author, 2010. ISBN: 9780473148515.
He volunteered for the RN in New Zealand in 1940 and after training at Ganges he joined Volunteer with other NZ ratings as a CW candidate. After training at King Alfred he joined Coastal Forces and was soon in command of ML 106 specialising in laying mines off the enemy coast. He ended the war as flotilla commander. |
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| 2296 | WRIGHT, Gerry. North Sea Warrior: The Story of Lieutenant Commander G. J. Macdonald, DSO DSC** MiD(2) RNZNVR. xiv, 406p., bibliog., illus., index. New Plymouth, NZ: author, 2010. ISBN: 9780473167448.
Macdonald was the most highly decorated New Zealand naval officer of World War II. After brief service as a DEMS gunner he went to King Alfred then joined Coastal Forces where he had a distinguished wartime career in MTBs. |
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| 2297 | ACWORTH, Bernard. Life in a Submarine. 48p., illus. London: Tuck, [c.1940].
A propaganda photo-essay. |
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| 2298 | AKERMANN, Paul. Encyclopaedia of British Submarines 1901–1955. xxii, 522p., bibliog., illus., index. Liskeard: Maritime Books, 1989. ISBN: 0907771424.
In this exhaustive study, a general account of how submarines have developed is followed by detailed chronological studies of each class, looking both at design and operational history. Foreign submarines taken over by the RN and submarine depot ships are included. There are clear line drawings and a wealth of information. Published in a limited edition of 500 copies. |
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| 2299 | ALLAWAY, Jim. Hero of the Upholder: The Story of Lieutenant Commander M. D. Wanklyn, VC, DSO**. 191p., bibliog., illus., index. Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1991. ISBN: 1853102180.
The story of a near mythical figure who, in just over a year based at Malta, sank the highest tonnage of the war by a British submariner before being lost on patrol. A good account. |
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| 2300 | ANSCOMB, Charles. Submariner. 203p., illus. London: Kimber, 1957.
The author's autobiography. He began the war in Parthian, which soon moved to the Mediterranean. In 1941 he stood by Tempest. She was lost on her first patrol from Malta early in 1942 and he was made a POW, but later escaped. |
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| 2301 | ATKINSON, John. Royal Navy Submarine Service Losses WWII & Crews. 48p., illus. Bromley: Galago, 2004. ISBN: 0946995656.
A roll of honour. A simple chronological list of sinkings and the crewmen lost with them. |
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