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| 2862 | MOIR, Peter, & CRAWFORD, Ian. Argyll Shipwrecks. 192p., bibliog., illus., index. Wemyss Bay: Moir Crawford, 1994. ISBN: 0951336614.
A wreck divers' guide to the coast from the Mull of Kintyre to Coll. Organised in four geographic sections, then alphabetically by ship name. Each one has a small description of how the vessel was lost. A useful if limited guide, including a number of war casualties. A second edition was published in 2003. |
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| 2863 | MOIR, Peter, & CRAWFORD, Ian. Clyde Shipwrecks. 192p., bibliog., illus., index. Wemyss Bay: Moir Crawford, 1988. ISBN: 0951336606.
A wreck divers' guide to the coast from the Mull of Galloway to Greenock. Organised in five geographic sections, then alphabetically by ship name. Each one has a small description of how the vessel was lost. A useful if limited guide, including a number of war casualties. A second edition was published in 1997 and a third in 2004 (ISBN: 0951336622). |
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| 2864 | MURPHY, Mark. 83 Days: The Survival of Seaman Izzi. 124p., illus. New York: Dutton, 1943.
Izzi was one of the US Armed Guard section on the Dutch liner Zaandam sunk by U 174 in the South Atlantic on 2 November 1942. It took almost three months before he was rescued by a US patrol craft, after suffering great privations. |
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| 2865 | NAGORSKI, Tom. Miracles on the Water: The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack. xv, 345p., illus. New York: Hyperion, 2006. ISBN: 1401301509.
A journalist's vivid account of the City of Benares sinking. |
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| 2866 | PRITCHARD, Gregory P. Collision at Sea. 178p., illus. Hantsport, N.S.: Lancelot, 1993. ISBN: 0889995389.
A full account of a small wartime tragedy when the Fanad Head, in convoy HX235 ran down the Canadian fishing schooner Flora Alberta with the loss of 21 lives on the schooner. |
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| 2867 | SEAMER, Robert. Floating Inferno: The Story of the Loss of the Empress of Britain. 184p., illus., index. Wellingborough: PSL, 1990. ISBN: 1852603240.
The largest single shipping loss of the war. Her sinking by FW Condor and U 32 is painfully and painstakingly reconstructed. |
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| 2868 | SMITH, Anthony. Survived! [6], vii, 166p., illus. London: Quintin Smith, 1998. ISBN: 0953322505.
Retells the amazing journey of Tapscott and Widdicombe over 2,500 miles in an open boat after the sinking of the s.s. Anglo-Saxon by the raider Widder. The last third of the book describes the recovery of the boat in the 1990s and its eventual transfer to the Imperial War Museum from the Mystic Seaport Museum. |
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| 2869 | SWINSON, Arthur. Scotch on the Rocks: The True Story of the Whisky Galore. 192p., illus. London: Davies, 1963.
The real story of the grounding of the s.s. Politician, immortalised in the novel of Compton Mackenzie and an Ealing Comedy film. |
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| 2870 | TENNENT, Alan J. British and Commonwealth Merchant Ship Losses to Axis Submarines 1939-1945. ix, 326p., bibliog., illus., index. Stroud, Sutton, 2001. ISBN: 0750927607.
A listing by company of the 1400 merchantmen lost to submarine attack. Details of the attack and crew and cargo losses are given. An excellent reference work. |
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| 2871 | TURNER, John Frayn. A Girl Called Johnnie: Three Weeks in an Open Boat. 184p., illus. London: Harrap; Toronto: Clarke-Irwin, 1963.
When the Avila Star was sunk in 1941 while travelling unescorted in the South Atlantic, the survivors endured great privation. |
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| 2872 | USHER, Gladys F. M. Some Who Had Lost Their All at Sea. 16p. [London: n.p., 1943].
Some 230 of the passengers and crew survived the sinking of the s.s. City of Cairo only to face dramatic boat journeys. |
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| 2873 | WEST, Frank. Lifeboat Number Seven. 208p., illus. London: Kimber, 1960.
West was on Britannia when sunk by the raider Thor on 25 March 1941 in mid-Atlantic. He was one of 38 survivors who reached Brazil after a 26-day voyage. |
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| 2874 | YOUNG, Ron. The Ultimate Shipwreck Guide: Whitby to Berwick. x, 388p., bibliog., illus., index. Dunbeath: Whittles, 2010. ISBN: 9781904445890.
A meticulously researched and detailed guide to the 285 wrecks off this coast. |
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| 2875 | YOUNG, Ron & ARMSTRONG, Pamela. Silent Warriors: Submarine Wrecks of the United Kingdom.. 3 vols., bibliog., illus., index. Stroud: Tempus (V.1), History Press (V.2-3), 2006-2010. ISBN: 075243876X (Vol.1), 0752447896 (Vol.2), 0752455426 (Vol.3).
Volume One covers England's East Coast from Northumberland to Kent; Volume 2 the South Coast from Sussex to the Isles of Scilly and Volume 3, Wales and the West. Each sinking is fully described and gives details of the state of the wreck. Although most are German and from the First World War, there is much interesting material on the Second World War and British boats lost in those waters are included. |
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| 2876 | BABER, A. E. Voyages and Fragments. 184p., illus. Bristol: Cathedral, 1985. ISBN: 0947554068.
His memoirs with 30 pages on WWII. These are mainly a series of anecdotes about his experiences as a Chief Officer on troopships in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean. |
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| 2877 | BISSET, James. Commodore: War, Peace and Big Ships. x, 470p., illus. London: Angus & Robertson, 1961; New York: Criterion, 1962.
The third volume of the author's autobiography covering the years 1913–1960. Much of it is devoted to WWII in which he commanded first Franconia, but then spent the bulk of the war on over 50 trooping voyages on one or other of the Queens. |
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| 2878 | BLAKELY, Al Ethelred. Convoy to India. 214p. New York: Trilon, 1953. A black American soldier in a Port Company, with pretensions to being a poet, records his impressions of life on a troopship going via the Atlantic and Suez to India, and of India itself; the whole is interspersed with his poetic gems. Pseudonym of Alfred Egbert Blake. |
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| 2879 | BONE, David. Landfall at Sunset: The Life of a Contented Sailor. 223p., illus. London: Duckworth, 1955.
An autobiography which covers WWII in 20 pages which condense the fuller and earlier Merchantman Rearmed below. |
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| 2880 | BONE, David. Merchantman Re-armed. xx, 331p., illus., index. London: Chatto & Windus, 1949.
The author's war memoirs. He was master of the Transylvania when war broke out and after several temporary commands spent most of the war in the trooper Circassia. The illustrations are drawings by his brother Muirhead Bone. An additional signed drawing appears in a limited deluxe edition of 160 copies. |
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| 2881 | BUTLER, Daniel Allen. Warrior Queens: The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in World War II. xiv, 191p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2002. ISBN: 0850528550.
A good solid operational account of their wartime role as troopships. |
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