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| 3502 | TANGYE, Ted. Just Ordinary Seamen. 164p., illus. Picton: [author], 2000.
Attempts to describe the lot of New Zealand's ordinary seamen serving in the Royal Navy and notably through the service of a dozen of them on the destroyer Isis. |
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| 3503 | TAYLOR, T. D. New Zealand's Naval Story: Naval Policy and Practice, Naval Occasions, Visiting Warships. 337p., illus., index. Wellington: Reed, 1948.
A history of New Zealand's Navy. WWII is largely avoided and left to the Official History. However, there is a large and interesting section on warships which had visited New Zealand, including those which paid visits during WWII. |
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| 3504 | WATERS, Sydney D. Leander (New Zealand in the Second World War. Official History). 32p., illus. Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs, 1950.
A brief, illustrated biography of the cruiser. |
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| 3505 | WATERS, Sydney D. The Royal New Zealand Navy (Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–45). xvi, 570p., bibliog., illus., index. Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs, 1956.
A comprehensive and detailed account of the New Zealand ships wherever they served and of events in New Zealand waters. |
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| 3506 | WRIGHT, Gerry. Salty Dits: Some Tales from the MLs by Those Who Served in Them. x, 334p., New Plymouth, NZ: author, 2010. ISBN: 9780473179052.
The story of the New Zealand based HDMLs. Although mainly concerned with their post-war careers, there is useful background on their acquisition and war service. |
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| 3507 | The Good Hope Record 1st August 1942–30th June 1944. 32p., illus. Port Elizabeth: Unie–Volkspers, [1944].
A pamphlet recording the wartime commission of HMS Good Hope, as an establishment for the promotion and training of temporary RNVR officers of the South African Naval Forces and those of other Dominion Navies. It has the flavour of a school magazine. |
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| 3508 | The South African Naval Forces in World War 2: 1939-1945. [20]p., illus. Simon's Town: South African Naval Museum, [c.1995]
A pamphlet reference work on the record of the South African Naval Force. |
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| 3509 | BAILEY, E. A. S. SAWAS 1939–1947: Book of Thanks 1980. 127p., illus., index. Ardgour: [author], 1981. ISBN: 0950748102.
The book places on record the thanks of a representative 6,000 soldiers, sailors, and airmen who benefited from the hospitality of the South African Womens' Auxiliary Services. Amongst other things contains a great deal of information on warships which called at South African ports and on the WS series of convoys. A limited edition of 700 copies. |
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| 3510 | DIMBLEBY, K. G. Hostilities Only. 130p., illus. Cape Town: Unie-Volkspers, 1944.
The South African author served for 14 months on the cruiser Cornwall, mainly in the Indian Ocean, until her sinking. He then held various appointments in South African waters, all of which are described. |
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| 3511 | DU TOIT, Allan. South Africa's Fighting Ships Past and Present. xxvii, 359p., bibliog., illus., index. Rivonia: Ashanti Publishing, 1992. ISBN: 1874800502.
The book is in three chronological sections with one devoted to the WWII Navy, largely ex-trawlers and whalers. A well-illustrated and full account, with career details. |
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| 3512 | ELLIS, Guy. Serve to Save: Servimus ut Servemus, The Air Force at Sea (African Aviation Series, no. 10). 159p., bibliog.., illus. Nelspruit: Freeworld,[2002.]. ISBN: 0958438838.
The little known maritime squadron of the SAAF operated crash boats recovering survivors of plane crashes, maritime disasters and sinkings. Has extensive coverage of their wartime record. |
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| 3513 | ERIKSEN, Ronnie. The Sea Was Kind to Me: The Memoirs of a Wartime Sailor. xv, 112p. illus., index. Knysna: Amorique, 1990. ISBN: 0620150556.
An autobiography. He joined up as an Able Seaman in the Seaward Defence Force in mid-1940, working on the converted minesweepers protecting the Cape. After seventeen months of fruitless patrols he took a commission after training at "Copey's Castle". As the South African Forces expanded he rose rapidly through the ranks of the local minesweeping and escort forces. In mid-1943 he commissioned HDML 1202 used for anchorage patrol off Durban. He soon moved back to escort vessels, by 1944 with his own command of a converted whalecatcher, where he stayed until wars end. A fairly factual account of his war is enlivened with anecdotes and interwoven with a full history of submarine warfare in South African waters. |
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| 3514 | GOOSEN, J. C. South Africa's Navy: The First Fifty Years. 228p., illus., index. Cape Town: Flesch, 1973. ISBN: 0949989029094.
A good general history with seventy pages on WWII. |
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| 3515 | HARRIS, C. J. with WILLIAMS, R. Copey's Castle: The Story of (HM)SAS Unitie. viii, 209p., illus., index. Cape Town: Unitie Trust, 1996. ISBN: 0620195762. A history of the naval training establishment opened in 1905 and nicknamed for its first Commander. It was completed by Williams after Harris's death. |
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| 3516 | HARRIS, C. J. War at Sea: South African Maritime Operations During World War II. xix, 356p., bibliog., illus., index. Rivonia: Ashanti Publishing, 1991. ISBN: 1874800286.
A popular and anecdotal series of tales of the South African Navy and of those South Africans who served with the RN. Covers everything from service on Arctic convoys to HMSAS Natal's U-boat sinking exploit. |
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| 3517 | LAVER, Margaret. Sailor-Women Sea-Women SWANS: A History of the South African Women's Auxiliary Naval Service 1943-1949. viii, 396p., bibliog., illus., index. Simonstown, Swans History Publication Fund, 1982. ISBN: 0620098538.
A limited edition of 1,000 copies lovingly recalling the work of this short-lived group who took over work which released men for sea service. |
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| 3518 | MARSH, John H. South Africa and the War at Sea in Word and Picture. 36p., illus. Capetown: Stewart Printing Company, 1945.
A booklet with postcard-size photographs of ships in some way connected with South Africa, with an accompanying page of text describing some notable event of the war. Covers not only warships and troopships but also merchantmen. Intended as the first of a series. |
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| 3519 | MARTIN, H. J., & ORPEN, Neil D. South Africa at War: Military and Industrial Organization and Operations in Connection with the Conduct of the War, 1939-1945 (South African Forces World War II. Vol. 7.) xvi, 405p. ,bibliog., illus., index. Cape Town: Purnell, 1979. ISBN: 0868430250.
The Official History covering the Home Front and with much on the naval situation. |
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| 3520 | RADCLIFFE, Jean. Able Seadog Just Nuisance R.N. 20p., illus. [Penrith, author, 1993].
Another light account of the much loved dog from Simonstown. |
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| 3521 | SISSON, Terence. Just Nuisance AB: His Full Story. 151p., illus. Cape Town: Flesch, 1985. ISBN: 094998938X
The dog which ran HMS Afrikander at Simonstown from 1939 to 1944. |
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