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BUT NO BRASS FUNNEL

by J. Douglas Stewart

Published by Whittles Publishing. 1st. 2004

Slightly better than very good condition. The author relates how he went to sea and some of his adventures and experiences during his years under the White Ensign and the Red Engsign. Cardwraps. B/w photos. v and 249 pages.

Spine slightly faded else fine.

ISBN: 1904445101
Stock no. 1816670

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Contents

  • How it all started
  • Special entry
  • First ship - SS Mulbera
  • To India and back
  • SS Kenya Operation Menace
  • Home to the Clyde
  • The Navy at last
  • Training courses
  • Around the Cape
  • HMS Euryalus - The Battle of Sirte
  • Life in a Minesweeper
  • A Corvette in the Eastern Mediterranean
  • The End of a Pretty Ship
  • General Post
  • Mediterranean Convoys
  • Arctic Convoy
  • The Last Lap to VE Day
  • Peacetime Minesweeping
  • A Shore Appointment
  • First Command
  • Minesweeping and Malta in Peacetime
  • Leaving the Service
  • Life Outside the Service
  • Into the Tanker Trade
  • SS Caltex Wellington
  • Ups and Downs
  • Life as a Chief Officer
  • In Command Again
  • Shipboard Advisory Teams
  • A Master Again
  • An Unexpected End
  • Bibliography

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