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| 1782 | FANNING, A. E. Steady As She Goes: A History of the Compass Dept. of the Admiralty. xlv, 462p., bibliog., illus., index. London: HMSO, 1986. ISBN: 0112904254.
Over thirty pages on their technical work in WWII. |
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| 1783 | GOLDUP, John. Naval Mails 1939–49. 40p., illus. Rotherham: TPO & Seapost Society, 1950.
This review of the postmarks and cancellation stamps of the Royal Navy is one of the more esoteric of naval byways. |
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| 1784 | GRAHAM, Jean Cunninghame. Sailor's Daughter 1928-1946. xviii, 186p., illus., index. Hawick: Lady Polwarth, 1993. ISBN: 0952263203.
An engaging account of her childhood, which usefully complements her father's memoirs. Only the final pages cover the war. |
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| 1785 | HAMPSHIRE, A. Cecil. Lilliput Fleet: The Story of the Royal Naval Patrol Service. 204p., illus. London: Kimber, 1957.
An anecdotal history of the Royal Naval Patrol Service. It used converted trawlers to tackle the myriad inshore tasks deemed suitable for minor vessels, yet they faced the same hazards as any fleet unit. |
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| 1786 | HAMPSHIRE, A. Cecil. The Phantom Fleet. 208p., illus. London: Kimber; Toronto: Ryerson, 1960.
Gives an account of the dummy warships used in both world wars to deceive the enemy. Much of the book concerns the WWII career of Centurion which was disguised as Anson for part of the war. Reprinted by White Lion in 1977. |
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| 1787 | HARE, Nancy. The Experiences of a Naval Officer's Wife in World War Two. 20p. [n.p.: author, c.1990].
The brief account of the nomadic wartime travels of a well-connected naval wife who traversed the globe from Malta to the United States following her husband. |
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| 1788 | HAYWARD, Tom, & ASHTON, Keith. The Royal Navy, Rum, Rumour and a Pinch of Salt. v, 105p., illus. Glasgow: Brown Son & Ferguson, 1985. ISBN: 0851744974.
A Chief Petty Officer in the Supply Branch gives his memoirs of service from 1925 to 1947. In 1939 he was in Liverpool in the Indian Ocean, Far East, and Mediterranean. After a short spell at Chatham he joined Heythrop in Northern waters. The rest of the war was spent in shore jobs in London, Trinidad, Grimsby, and Ceylon. |
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| 1789 | HISCOCK, Eric C. I Left the Navy. 176p., illus. London: Arnold, 1946.
Despite bad eyesight, he got an engineer's berth aboard an A/S yacht. When put in for a commission, he was failed because of his eyesight and this process is graphically described. In a final chapter he tells of his return to sea with the Admiralty Ferry Service. |
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| 1790 | HODGES, Peter. Royal Navy Warship Camouflage 1939–1945. 80p., illus. London: Almark Publishing, 1973. A brief well-illustrated account. |
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| 1791 | HOWSE, Derek. Radar at Sea: The Royal Navy in World War II. xix, 383., bibliog., illus., index. London: Macmillan; Annapolis: NIP, 1993. ISBN: 033358449X.
A noble attempt to make a technical subject accessible. Developments are related to naval actions, which makes the whole more comprehensible. |
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| 1792 | HUNT, Cecil. Gallant Little Campeador.vii, 72p., illus. London: Methuen, 1941.
A yacht of the Auxiliary Patrol Service with a veteran RNVR crew, mined with only two survivors in June 1940. She caught the public imagination following a Times leader. |
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| 1793 | HUNT, M. The Ship of Truth. [vi], 207p. London: Hamilton, 1999. ISBN: 1901668320.
The autobiography of a young civilian girl in war. Much of the book concerns the end of the war in Falmouth when she was courting a volunteer naval officer serving on an LCT. Captures the spirit of the time. |
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| 1794 | JAMES, Tony. The Royal Fleet Auxiliary 1905–1985. 144p., illus., index. Liskeard: Maritime Books, 1985. ISBN: 0907771211. A class list with leading details of each vessel plus brief notes on service and many illustrations. |
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| 1795 | JOUBERT DE LA FERTÉ, Philip. The Forgotten Ones: The Story of the Ground Crews. 251p., illus., index. London: Hutchinson, 1961.
This book covers all nonflying personnel from WAAF's to Air-Sea Rescue. The approach is chronological from the formation of the RFC until WWII, then tends to look at them by group rather than chronologically. There is some minimal naval information. |
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| 1796 | JULLIAN, Marcel. HMS Fidelity.204p., illus. London: Souvenir, 1957; New York: Norton, 1958.
The strange story of a largely Free French manned Q-ship which was eventually sunk in the Atlantic in December 1942. Originally published in France in 1956. |
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| 1797 | KERR, J. Lennox, & GRANVILLE, Wilfred. The RNVR: A Record of Achievement. 304p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Harrap, 1957.
A full history, half of which is devoted to WWII. Fairly general. |
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| 1798 | KIMMINS, Anthony. "It Is Upon the Navy..." 61, [4]p. London: Hutchinson, [1942].
A dozen radio broadcasts on the work of the RN, giving personal impressions of incidents covering the whole range of the war at sea. |
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| 1799 | KINGSLEY, F. A. The Applications of Radar and Other Electronic Systems in the Royal Navy in World War II. xxvii, 370p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Macmillan for the Naval Radar Trust, 1995. ISBN: 0333627482.
A series of detailed technical essays by those associated with the development of naval radar. |
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| 1800 | KINGSLEY, F. A. The Development of Radar Equipments for the Royal Navy 1935–1945. xl, 476p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Macmillan for the Naval Radar Trust, 1995. ISBN: 0333612108.
A second volume of technical essays. |
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| 1801 | KINGSWELL, Peter. Fidelity Will Haunt Me till I Die (Royal Marines Historical Society Special Publications, No.13). 128p., bibliog., illus., index. Portsmouth: Royal Marines Historical Society, 1991. ISBN: 0953616371.
The mysterious story of the Q-ship HMS Fidelity. The author's obsession with her led to years of research and discussions with two of the ten survivors, as a means of piecing together her strange tale. A second edition was published in 1999, a third in 2000 and a fourth in 2010. |
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