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Documents: 16
| 2082 | GOODWIN, Norman. Castle Class Corvettes: An Account of the Service of the Ships and of Their Ships' Companies. xiv, 530p., illus. Liskeard: Maritime Books, 2007. ISBN: 1904459277.
A grand gallimaufry of information about the class with as its backbone individual chronologies of each ship. |
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| 2083 | HARLAND, John H. Catchers and Corvettes: The Steam Whalecatcher in Peace and War 1860–1960. xii, 432p., bibliog., illus., index. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot, 1992. ISBN: 0948864095.
Only a small section of this book concerns corvettes and armed trawlers, but it has a very detailed descriptive text and comprehensive plans. An excellent if marginal publication. |
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| 2084 | HORABIN, Ron. Tribute to a Flower: HMS Bryony. 103p., illus. Manchester: author, 1996.
The author is a model maker turned amateur historian. He has assiduously assembled facts, memories and photographs to provide a competent history marred by atrocious proofreading. |
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| 2085 | LAMBERT, John. Warship Perspectives: Flower Class Corvettes in World War II. 96p., illus. Lynbrook, N.Y.: WR Press, 2000.
Illustrated with line drawings and photographs of various corvettes, including a major one of Anemone. |
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| 2086 | MONSARRAT, Nicholas. Corvette Command. 100p., illus. London: Cassell, 1944.
The third volume recounting his war career. |
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| 2087 | MONSARRAT, Nicholas. East Coast Corvette. 80p., illus. London: Cassell; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1943.
The second biographical volume is Monsarrat's jaunty account of his life as the First Lieutenant of a convoy escort. |
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| 2088 | MONSARRAT, Nicholas. H.M. Corvette. 92p., illus. London: Cassell; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1942.
The first biographical section of a wartime autobiography in what was to become a distinguished writing career. |
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| 2089 | MONSARRAT, Nicholas. Life is a Four-Letter Word. Volume 2: Breaking Out. [vii], 570p., illus. London: Cassell, 1970. ISBN: 184232148X
This volume of mature autobiography includes the author's war service, but concentrates on 1941 when he served in Campanula. An abridged version of both volumes of autobiography was published as Breaking In, Breaking Out by Morrow of New York in 1971. |
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| 2090 | MONSARRAT, Nicholas. Three Corvettes: Comprising HM Corvette, East Coast Corvette, Corvette Command. 268p., illus. London: Cassell, 1945.
A collected edition of the three works on corvettes published during the war and covering Monsarrat's war at sea 1940–43. Some of this grew into The Cruel Sea. Republished by Phoenix in 2000 (ISBN: 0304354449). |
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| 2091 | PERRETT, Bryan. U-Boat Hunter: Peter Rogers, HMS Arum 1939-1945. [My Story]. 176p., illus. London: Scholastic Children's Books, 2005. ISBN: 0439959381.
An attempt to recreate the battle of the Atlantic as seen from corvettes through the eyes of a fictional teenager. |
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| 2092 | PRESTON, Antony, & RAVEN, Alan. Flower Class Corvettes (Ensign 3). 57p., illus. London: Bivouac Books, 1973. ISBN: 085680004X.
A detailed technical description with many illustrations. Reprinted as Man o' War,7 in 1982 (ISBN: 0853685592). |
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| 2093 | WARD, John A. The Flower of Arnold: The Story of Arnold's Adopted Warship. 80p., illus. Ruddington: author, c.2006.
The town of Arnold adopted Pennywort in 1943. This reconstructs that link and her story, largely cut and pasted from newspaper accounts and some veterans' recollections. |
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| 2094 | WILKINS, Edward T. With a Flower Upon The Ocean: The Memoirs of a Man Dressed as a Matelot in World War Two. xx, 172p., illus. Birkenhead: Countyvise, 2004. ISBN: 1901231445.
An affectionate reconstruction of the career of Columbine and her cast of characters, as seen from the lower deck. |
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| 2095 | WILLANS, G. One Eye on the Clock. 178p., illus. London: Macmillan, 1944.
"A record of towns, people and friends." Memoirs of a RNVR officer. He served on Peony in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. In 1941 he moved to Formidable and immediately went with her to the US for repair. The book ends as he returns to the UK leading a draft of seamen. |
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| 4790 | MASTERMAN, Brian. HMS Honeysuckle: The Ship that Goole Bought. iv,66p., illus. Goole: [author], 2000. In 1942 Goole adopted the corvette after a fundraising drive which gathered over £320,000. Although there is an account of the corvette’s career and its interaction with the town, the focus is on how Warship Week raised large sums in Goole and the surrounding areas. |
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| 2081 | BAILEY, Chris Howard. The Royal Naval Museum Book of the Battle of the Atlantic. The Corvettes and Their Crews: An Oral History. xxvii, 156p., bibliog., illus., index. Portsmouth: Royal Naval Museum; Annapolis: NIP, 1994. ISBN: 0905778189. The imaginative use of oral history is deployed to create a picture of what like was like on the Atlantic corvettes. Some sets of reminiscences are skilfully woven together. |
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