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| 2762 | WOODMAN, Richard. Fiddler's Green. The Great Squandering: 1921-2010 ( A History of the British Merchant Navy, Volume Five). 480p., bibliog., illus., index. Stroud: History Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780752448220.
The concluding volume of this authoritative and widely admired history includes much material on the war years. |
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| 2763 | WOOLFITT, Susan. Idle Women. 221p., illus. London: Benn, 1947. The author was recruited by the MoWT under the Women's Training Scheme in 1944 to work on canal boats moving cargo round England. Presents an idyllic picture of life on the Home Front in the last year of war. Reprinted in 1986 by Baldwin with a new introduction and new illustrations (ISBN: 0947712038). |
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| 2764 | WYNNE, Deane Stuart. Recollections From Below the Mast. 225p., illus. Dean's Publications, 2005. ISBN: 095521520X.
The autobiography of a 17 year old going to sea in WWII to service in the Merchant Navy. Gives a good account of being sunk and rescued in a North Atlantic convoy. |
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| 2765 | The Ben Line: The Story of a Merchant Fleet at War. xi, 107p., frontis. London: Nelson, 1946.
A record of the major wartime incidents which involved the Ben Line's ships. Inevitably most of these were sinkings. |
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| 2766 | Contribution to Victory: Being a Short Account of the Wartime Activities of the Tanker Fleets Owned by Athel Line Limited and Tankers Limited, Subsidiaries of the United Molasses Company Limited. 14p. [London: Athel Line], 1946.
Tankers were prime targets for U–boats as is shown by this brief account of a fleet which lost two–thirds of its ships. |
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| 2767 | Sea Hazard 1939–45: A Record of the Engagements between Enemy Submarines, Aircraft etc., and the Ships under the Management of Houlder Brothers and Company Limited. 109p., illus., index. [London: Houlder Brothers, 1947].
A chronological account in which each chapter recounts the involvement of a company ship with the enemy. |
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| 2768 | Seventy Adventurous Years: The Story of the Bank Line 1885–1955. 136p., illus. [n.p.: Bank Line], 1956.
The volume marks 70 years of growth and prosperity for the firm. It largely avoids the Bank Line Fleet's war history. |
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| 2769 | War Service of the Merchant Navy: A Record of the Participation of the Men and Ships of Huddart Parker Ltd. 79p., illus., index. Melbourne: [Huddart Parker Ltd.], 1951.
The war story of each of the company's and associated companies' ships. The most notable and best covered of these is the AMC (later LSI) Westralia. |
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| 2770 | Wartime Experiences 1939–1945: Brief Accounts of the Wartime Experiences of the Ships and Their Crews and of the Shore and Sea Staffs on Service 1939–1945. 39p. London: Port Line, 1947.
Almost half of the 30 Port Line ships which started the war were lost in action. Commodore W. G. Higgs appears to have undertaken most of the research for this small pamphlet. |
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| 2771 | BARTY-KING, Hugh. Girdle Round the Earth: The Story of Cable & Wireless and Its Predecessors to Mark the Group's Jubilee, 1929–1979. xvi, 413p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Heinemann, 1979. ISBN: 0434049026. A very detailed history from the laying of the first cross-Channel cable in 1851. Two chapters are devoted to the company and its cable-laying ships in WWII. |
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| 2772 | BLAKE, George. The Ben Line: The History of Wm Thomson & Co of Leith and Edinburgh, and of the Ships owned and managed by Them 1825–1955. ix, 222p., illus., index. London: Nelson, 1956.
WWII is covered in 30 pages which inevitably rely heavily on the company's earlier war history. |
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| 2773 | BOWEN, Frank. The Flag of the Southern Cross 1939–1945. 71p., illus., index. London: Shaw Savill & Albion, 1947.
A brief account of the war service of the ships and men of the Shaw Savill line. Several of their ships were taken over as Armed Merchant Cruisers, the most famous being Jervis Bay. |
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| 2774 | BRITISH ELECTRICITY AUTHORITY. The Collier Fleet of the British Electricity Authority. 28p. London: British Electricity Authority, 1955.
Describes how they operate and includes material on their war service. |
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| 2775 | BUSHELL, Thomas A. Eight Bells: Royal Mail Lines War Story 1939–1945. xv, 207p., illus., index. London: Trade & Travel, 1950.
Royal Mail Lines entered the war with a fleet of 31 ships which served all over the world. Some were commissioned into the RN. |
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| 2776 | CHAPPELL, Connery. Island Lifeline. xvi, 173p., bibliog., illus. Prescot: T. Stephenson, 1979. ISBN: 090131420X.
150 years of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co. Ltd. The book describes all the company's vessels and there is a chapter on their extensive war service. Ten of the company's 16 vessels were commissioned. |
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| 2777 | CHUBB, H. J., & DUCKWORTH, C. L. D. Irrawaddy Flotilla Co. Ltd., 1865–1950 (Maritime Monographs and Reports, 7). 178, [39]p., illus. Greenwich: National Maritime Museum, 1973.
A full history of the company, which also includes Captain Chubb's wartime memoirs. |
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| 2778 | COMPTON, Hugh J. Isle of Wight Here We Come: The Story of the Southern Railway's Isle of Wight Ships during the War 1939–1945. 80p., illus. Oxford: Oakwood, 1997. ISBN: 0853615063.
The ferry service continued although some of the ships were converted to minesweepers. They were also used at Dunkirk. All is lovingly described. |
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| 2779 | COWDEN, James E. The Price of Peace: Elder Dempster 1939–1945. 99p., illus. Liverpool: Jocast, 1981. ISBN: 0950748005.
Individual accounts of the 33 Elder Dempster ships sunk in the war and of the hospital ship Aba. |
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| 2780 | COWDEN, James E., & DUFFY, John O. C. The Elder Dempster Fleet History 1852–1985. xv, 528p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Mallett & Bell, 1986. ISBN: 0950945315.
A fleet list with a short biography of each vessel. Packed with detail of their operations. |
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| 2781 | DIVINE, David. These Splendid Ships: The Story of the Peninsular and Oriental Line. 255p., illus., index. London: Muller, 1960.
Only 20 pages cover the P & O ships splendid war service, possibly the most famous of them being the Rawalpindi. |
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