Author: Pugsley, Rear-Admiral A. F. (in collaboration with Macintye, Captain Donald),
Title: DESTROYER MAN.
Description: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1957, 1st edn., 224pp, 6pp half tone photo ills. and maps, diagrams in text, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the author graduated from Dartmouth Royal Naval College and witnessed the surrender of the High Seas Fleet as a Midshipman. He served as 2/IC of the gunboat HMS Widgeon on the Chinese Yangtse river and his first command was of a submarine chaser P40 based at Portland. He was promoted to Commander in 1936 and appointed to the Admiralty advising on equipping new destroyers, an ideal position from which to choose his next command. He selected the fleet destroyer HMS Javelin which commissioned in June 1939, serving in the Norwegian campaign and assisting in the evacuation of Dunkirk before joining Lord Mountbatten's 5th Destroyer Flotilla. In November 1940 Javelin was torpedoed off the Devon coast by three German destroyers, losing both the bow and stern and reducing her overall length from 350 to 150 feet. With the help of tugs the remains were towed to Plymouth. On Christmas Day 1940 he was ordered to take command of the destroyer HMS Fearless at Troon, joining Force H at Gibraltar. Fearless took part in a number of Force H operations and convoys in the Mediterranean before bombed and sunk north-east of Bone in July 1941. Pugsley returned home and in October was appointed to command a new destroyer, HMS Paladin. In April 1942 on convoy escort in the Indian Ocean she rescued the captain and crew of the cruiser HMS Dorsetshire during an operation against the Vichy French in Madagascar before returrning to the Mediterranean. In December 1942 the author was promoted to Captain and appointed to command the 14th Destroyer Flotilla in HMS Jervis. 1943 was spent harrying Axis shipping and he commanded all fleet destroyers in the Eastern Mediterranean. In July 1943 he was recalled to join the planning staff for D-Day and appointed to commmand one of the assault groups, later serving as Captain Patrols to protect the build-up of supplies. His last WW2 command was the amphibious operation to take Walcheren, opening the route to Antwerp, slight bloom to cloth, all edges tanned and a little foxed. upper edge dusty, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., overall soiling esp. to lower panel, foxing to reverse, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,
Keywords: war ww2 navy china yangtse widgeon p40 javelin fearless paladin jervis destroyers mountbatten forceh walcheren
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Title: DESTROYER MAN.
Description: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1957, 1st edn., 224pp, 6pp half tone photo ills. and maps, diagrams in text, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the author graduated from Dartmouth Royal Naval College and witnessed the surrender of the High Seas Fleet as a Midshipman. He served as 2/IC of the gunboat HMS Widgeon on the Chinese Yangtse river and his first command was of a submarine chaser P40 based at Portland. He was promoted to Commander in 1936 and appointed to the Admiralty advising on equipping new destroyers, an ideal position from which to choose his next command. He selected the fleet destroyer HMS Javelin which commissioned in June 1939, serving in the Norwegian campaign and assisting in the evacuation of Dunkirk before joining Lord Mountbatten's 5th Destroyer Flotilla. In November 1940 Javelin was torpedoed off the Devon coast by three German destroyers, losing both the bow and stern and reducing her overall length from 350 to 150 feet. With the help of tugs the remains were towed to Plymouth. On Christmas Day 1940 he was ordered to take command of the destroyer HMS Fearless at Troon, joining Force H at Gibraltar. Fearless took part in a number of Force H operations and convoys in the Mediterranean before bombed and sunk north-east of Bone in July 1941. Pugsley returned home and in October was appointed to command a new destroyer, HMS Paladin. In April 1942 on convoy escort in the Indian Ocean she rescued the captain and crew of the cruiser HMS Dorsetshire during an operation against the Vichy French in Madagascar before returrning to the Mediterranean. In December 1942 the author was promoted to Captain and appointed to command the 14th Destroyer Flotilla in HMS Jervis. 1943 was spent harrying Axis shipping and he commanded all fleet destroyers in the Eastern Mediterranean. In July 1943 he was recalled to join the planning staff for D-Day and appointed to commmand one of the assault groups, later serving as Captain Patrols to protect the build-up of supplies. His last WW2 command was the amphibious operation to take Walcheren, opening the route to Antwerp, slight bloom to cloth, all edges tanned and a little foxed. upper edge dusty, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., overall soiling esp. to lower panel, foxing to reverse, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,
Keywords: war ww2 navy china yangtse widgeon p40 javelin fearless paladin jervis destroyers mountbatten forceh walcheren
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- Book number: 45356
- Book number: 45356
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