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| 2722 | MANN, Jessica. Out of Harm's Way: The Wartime Evacuation of Children from Britain. x, 342p. bibliog., illus., index. London: Headline, 2005. ISBN: 0755311388.
Herself an evacuee, the author describes the experience of the children sent overseas. Has some atmospheric accounts of their voyages. |
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| 2723 | MARTIN, Roy. Ebb and Flow: Evacuations and Landings by Merchant Ships in World War Two. x, 184p., bibliog., illus. Brook House: Southampton, 2010. ISBN: 9780955744129. A labour of love which faithfully records what is known about the role of the Merchant Navy from the Norwegian campaign to the Pacific War. Reprinted in 2012 by Fontwell as Merchantmen in Action: Evacuations and Landings by Merchant Ships in the Second World War (ISBN: 178155045X). |
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| 2724 | MATHISON, Arthur. Now the Long Trick's Over: A British Merchant Seaman's Life from 1932. 170p., illus. Newport: Dead Good, 2009. ISBN: 9780954693770.
A slightly incoherent but lively tale of forty years at sea. During the war he made his way up the officer ranks and sailed widely. |
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| 2725 | MERCHANT NAVY COMFORT SERVICE. The Red Ensign: A Saga of the Merchant Navy. 3 vols., illus. Leicester: Hodgkins Millar, 1940–42.
A series of essays and short stories on the Merchant Navy. The first volume has articles on Graf Spee and the Altmark, as well as on everything from nature study at sea to the superstitions of sailors. The second and third volumes, which are noticeably less informative about the state of the war at sea are subtitled "The Merchant Navy Annual." |
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| 2726 | MILLER, Ian Alexander. Voyages Into Eternity: Memoirs of the Miller Family From 1812 to 1955. [xii], 308p., bibliog., illus. Edinburgh: Pentland, 1997. ISBN: 1858214467. A grand sweeping family tale which includes his merchant seafaring in WWII. He travelled all over the world and was torpedoed twice. |
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| 2727 | MULVILLE, Frank. North Star to Southern Cross – By Steam and Sail to Argentina. vi, 254p., illus. Leatherhead: Ashford, Buchan & Enright, 1993. ISBN: 1852532912.
An autobiography much concerned with his yachting experiences. Includes a large section on his wartime career as a young man on the Celtic Star on the South America run, when he was torpedoed and sunk and of a later recreation of his merchant voyages in a his yacht. |
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| 2728 | MUMFORD, J. Gordon. The Black Pit. . . and Beyond. 138p., illus. Burnstown, Ont.: General Store Publishing House, 2000. ISBN: 1894263197.
Personal account of World War II experiences of a British Merchant Navy Radio Officer. Includes the story of the Scottish Heather torpedoed in convoy ONS154. |
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| 2729 | MUMFORD, J. Gordon. The Sampan Girl. ix, 190p. Burnstown, Ont.: General Store Publishing House, 2001. ISBN: 1894263405.
He was the sole radio officer on a small tanker involved in the Malayan beachhead landings and the post-war clean-up operations in 1945-46. A series of adventures takes him ever closer to Hong Kong, where awaits him the best adventure of all. Having survived the trauma of war and childhood abuse, Gordon finally finds love and compassion in the arms of Anni, the sampan girl. |
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| 2730 | MURRAY, William. Atlantic Rendezvous. xviii, 317p., bibliog., illus. Lymington: Nautical Publishing, 1970. ISBN: 0245598944. Murray was a radio operator on the Tribesman, which was sunk by Scheer in December 1940. He was transferred to Nordmark and eventually escaped from prison camp. An interesting autobiography. |
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| 2731 | NASH, J. D. Fifty Years at Sea. [iv], 149p., illus. Ringwood: Navigator Books, 1994. ISBN: 0902830414.
The autobiography of a distinguished mariner. In 1939 he was First Officer on an Eagle Oil tanker and travelled in many convoys. For the last two years of the war he served with the Pacific Fleet Train. Largely anecdotal and somewhat disconnected reminiscences. |
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| 2732 | NORRIS, Alan. High Fronts & Low Backs. x, 224p., illus. London: Volume II, 1994. ISBN: 1858460352.
The autobiography of a merchant mariner. Before the war he served as an engineer with Elder Dempster. Much of the book recalls his wartime service on William Wilberforce. |
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| 2733 | OCHERT, Maurice. An Australian's Perspective on the Merchant Navy in World War II. vi, 45p., bibliog., illus. Brisbane: author, 2001.
He was a merchant seaman throughout World War II. He served as an engineer on a variety of ships, sailing to all parts of the world. He survived air and torpedo attacks, storms and crew members ranging from plain stupid to totally insane – particularly when in the grip of the demon drink. |
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| 2734 | PALMER, Ralph. A Shopkeeper at Sea. One of the Last Ships Out and Leading Them Back Home Again. 36p. St Peter Port, Guernsey: CIC, 1985. Published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the liberation of the islands. The brief autobiography of a Channel Islander who served in the Merchant Navy. |
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| 2735 | PATTON, William. The Scrap Log of an Engineer. 206p., illus. Ilfracombe: Stockwell, [1952].
War memoirs of a chief engineer who served in tramps all over the world and escaped being torpedoed in convoy. |
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| 2736 | PEARCE, Frank. Heroes of the Fourth Service. 192p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Hale, 1996. ISBN: 0709058799.
Looks at well-known actions such as PQ17 and Pedestal but has chapters on much less well-known but no less dramatic acts of heroism. |
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| 2737 | PHILLIPS, G. Purssey. The Dark Seas Remember. 148p., illus. London: Paul, [1943].
Dramatic tales of the gallantry of the wartime Merchant Navy. |
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| 2738 | PIM, Tom. Destiny of Life. 2nd edition. 188p. Knebworth: Able Publishing, 2001. ISBN: 1903607167.
The lightly fictionalised wartime autobiography of a boy sailor focused on Arctic convoys, and growing up in a chaotic wartime environment. |
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| 2739 | PROCTOR, Robert C. Fifty Years with the Prince Line 1913–1963. 141p., illus. Ilfracombe: Stockwell, 1967.
An autobiography with good coverage of a Master's life at war. |
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| 2740 | PROCTOR, R.C. Tom Sloane – Master Mariner. vii, 211p., illus. Lancaster: Scotforth, 2002. ISBN: 1904244041.
The biography of a Sunderland master mariner born in 1899, apprenticed at fifteen and who retired in 1964. His busy war service is fully described. |
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| 2741 | RUSSELL, Herbert. Sea Shepherds: Wardens of Our Food Flocks. vii, 247p., illus., index. London: Murray, 1941.
A history of convoy, the second half of which reviews the practices and prospects of the present war. |
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