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| 3442 | WARRILOW, Betty. Nabob: The First Canadian Manned Aircraft Carrier. ix, 202p., bibliog., illus., index. Owen Sound, Ont.: Escort Carriers Association, 1989. ISBN: 0969343809.
Strictly RN but Canadian manned she was torpedoed off Norway in August 1944 and struggled back to the UK but was a constructive total loss. |
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| 3443 | EVANS, George H. Through the Corridors of Hell. 99p., illus. Antigonish, N.S.: Formac, 1980. ISBN: 0887800092. A Newfoundlander in the Merchant Marine, including service in the Arctic. His ship was torpedoed in 1941 and he spent nine days in an open lifeboat and was hospitalized at Westmann Island, Iceland |
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| 3444 | GIESLER, Patricia. Valour at Sea: Canada's Merchant Navy. 33p., illus. Ottawa: Veterans Affairs Canada, 1998. ISBN: 0662267656.
An affectionate tribute. |
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| 3445 | HALFORD, Robert G. The Unknown Navy: Canada's World War II Merchant Navy. 272p., bibliog., illus., index. St. Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell; Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1995. ISBN: 1551250403.
A reasonable history along with a personal memoir and some oral history accounts of life at sea. |
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| 3446 | HEAL, Syd C. Across Far Distant Horizons: The Life and Times of a Canadian Master Mariner. 311p., illus. Vancouver, B.C.: Cordillera, 1995. ISBN: 1895590132,
Drawn from the unpublished memoirs of Trevor Whitla Bridges. Born in 1881, he became a Merchant Officer and retired between the wars. Recalled in 1940 to the Naval Control Service, he soon fell out with authority. After a political fight he was reinstated as Captain of the first of the Canadian-built North Sands Class in 1943 and sailed her round the Pacific for the rest of the war. |
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| 3447 | HEAL, Syd C. Conceived in War, Born in Peace: Canada's Deep Sea Merchant Marine. 234p., illus., index. Vancouver, B.C.: Cordillera, 1992. ISBN: 1895590019.
Covers both world wars and the huge industrial contribution made by the Fourth Service. Really a series of short essays rather than a coherent narrative. |
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| 3448 | HEAL, Syd C. A Great Fleet of Ships: the Canadian Forts and Parks. 312p. bibliog., illus., tipped in plan, index. St. Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell, 1999; Annapolis: NIP, 2000. ISBN: 1551250233. Over 400 of these ships were built. This is a nostalgic but definitive memorial to them with details of their building, operations, and fate. Also contains many anecdotes. |
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| 3449 | HUTCHERSON, W. Sparks in the Parks: The Experiences of a Canadian Radio Officer while Serving on the Wartime-Built Deep-Sea Freighters of Canada's Fourth Service, the Canadian Merchant Navy. ii, 258p. illus. Richmond, B.C.: Old Hutch, 2000. ISBN: 096866640X.
A personal memoir. |
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| 3450 | LEBLANC, Patricia E. Gallagher. From Tropical White to Battleship Grey. 259p., bibliog., illus. Ottawa: Alone Publishing, 1998. ISBN: 0969581408.
The biography of Edward Leblanc, a Canadian Merchant Marine captain, by his daughter-in-law. A very small section covers his war service, much of it on the West Indies run, but also further afield, often as convoy commodore. He died within a week of war's end. |
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| 3451 | McKEE, Fraser M. 'Sink All Shipping There': The Wartime Loss of Canada's Merchant Ships and Fishing Schooners. 336p., bibliog., illus., index. St Catharines: Vanwell, 2004. ISBN: 1551250551.
Sixty accounts of Canadian registered ship losses grouped by company. Little tales of tragedy and heroism combine to form a moving testament. |
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| 3452 | PARKER, Mike. Running the Gauntlet: An Oral History of Canadian Merchant Seamen in World War II. xi, 344p., bibliog., illus., index. Halifax, N.S.: Nimbus, 1994. ISBN: 1551090686.
Some 50 accounts of the hardships of the merchant seaman's war from a cross-section of Canadian veterans. |
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| 3453 | REID, Max. The Arming of Canadian Merchant Ships in the Second World War: Two Navies – the Same Ship. viii, 156p., bibliog., illus, index. Quyon, QC: Royal Canadian Naval Association/ Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships Branch, 2003. ISBN: 0969358091.
A somewhat dry but fascinating reference work which describes the ships, the weapons and the crews. |
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| 3454 | REID, Max. DEMS at War! D.E.M.S. and the Battle of the Atlantic 1939–1945. 100p., bibliog., illus. Ottawa: Commoners' Publishing Society, 1990. ISBN: 0889700796.
Records the work of 2,000 Canadian reservists who served with Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships. A curious mixture of reminiscence and handbook to DEMS operations and structure. |
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| 3455 | India at War. 32p., illus. [London(?): n.p., c.1943].
There are only three well-illustrated pages on the Royal Indian Navy in this pamphlet, which is, however, included because of the paucity of information on that neglected service. |
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| 3456 | Little Ships War: A Tribute to the Coastal Forces of India's Fighting Navy. 17p., plus note of gallantry awards tipped in. [Calcutta?: n.p.], 1944.
Published as a supplement to the RIN Log, this is a tribute to the MLs of the Arakan Coastal Forces. |
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| 3457 | COLLINS, D. J. E. The Royal Indian Navy 1939–45 (Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War). xxiv, 385p., illus., index. Agra: Combined Inter-Services Historical Section (India & Pakistan), 1964. The Indian Navy made a wider and larger contribution in several theatres than is often recognised. An excellent work. |
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| 3458 | GOULDEN, O. A. From Trombay to Changi's a Helluva Way. 229, [106]p., bibliog., illus., index. Andover: Arakan Coastal Forces Reunion Committee, 1987.
Fairmiles and MTBs constituted the only naval ships in the Bay of Bengal at the end of 1942 and took part in every major landing and operation until they were amongst the first ships into Singapore in 1945. |
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| 3459 | GOULDEN, O. A. The 13th and 14th Fairmile Flotillas in Burma. 1–76, [14], 77–168, 10, 12, 23p., illus. Andover: [author], 1989.
A mixture of history, anecdote, biographies, and reminiscences. |
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| 3460 | HASTINGS, D. J. Bombay Buccaneers. x, 257p., bibliog., illus. London: BACSA, 1986.
Three dozen short reminiscences cover all branches of the RIN and are especially strong on the support services. |
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| 3461 | HASTINGS, D. J. The Royal Indian Navy, 1612–1950. x, 371p., bibliog., illus., index. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1988. ISBN: 0899502768.
Despite the title, the vast bulk of the book is devoted to WWII, making this the most accessible if not the best written record of the RINs notable contribution to the war. |
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