Signals to the Fleet: A Naval Anthology, Vol. II - Softcover

Hughes-Mullock, Mr Robert B.D.M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 148413396X ISBN 13: 9781484133965

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

A new series of naval/maritime history journals based on years of in-depth research, "Signals from the Fleet" explores aspects of British, Commonwealth and Foreign Naval History. From the editor of the journal "The Review" comes a new naval/maritime anthology, covering a wide variety of topics including: HMS Handy – Britain’s Last Iron Gunboat; The Remarkable Robert Halpin; By the Narrowest of Margins: Captain “Dillinger” Wingfield RN; With the Royal Canadian Navy in the Korean War; An Assured Peace? The German Navy’s Visit to Whale Island, 1907; “Conduct Very Plucky in One so Young . . .”: A Teenage VC; A Farewell to the Pride of Wales: HMS Cardiff; The Unfortunate Career of HMCS Saguenay; Up North With the British; The Final Signal – A Moment in History; Remember the Amphion!; The ‘Cycle Box’ – An Unglamorous Forty Years; His Majesty’s Submarine H5; “For the Efficiency of the Fleet” – Engineer Captain C.G. Taylor MVO, RN; U-48 and the Sinking of RMS Connaught; HMS Sir Thomas Picton; For Grateful Service’ – Petty Officer E. J. Watkiss, RN; The Wreck of the Argyll, 1915; Vice-Admiral James Charles Tancred, RN (1864-1943); Maritime Tragedy in the Outer Hebrides – HMY Iolaire; Polish Eagle Shows its Mettle: The Short but Heroic Career of the Orzel; “Romp of the Tars set Coney a-tremble”; HM Monitor M33 – A Lucky Survivor; We slept in a convent – the exploits of HMS Sparrow; HMS Calypso (D61) – Mussolini’s propaganda coup; “ . . . and the Commodore went Down with the Ship; A Phoenix born of fire: Pearl Harbor to the South Atlantic; The ship that refused to sink – MV Lucellum; The life and death of HMS Bullen; The last Lend-Lease – HMS Lewes (G68) and An Officer and a Gentleman: Captain C.W.V.T.S. Lepper, RN (1892-1952)

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 148413396X
• ISBN 13: 9781484133965
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 178