Author: Lawrence, H.,
Title: VICTORY AT SEA - Tales of His Majesty's Coastal Forces.
Description: McCelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1990, 1st in imprint Canada, paperback, 322pp, [ii] ads, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the experiences of members of the Royal Canadian Navy in WW2, during their service in RN Coastal Forces, in Motor Torpedo Boats, Motor Gunboats and Motor Launches, in the North Sea, English Channel and the Mediterranean, starting with an operational patrol in the North Sea under the command of Lt. Cdr. Robert Hichens in which one E-boat was sunk, a description of the developmment of the short motor gunboats and the problem with their engines, brief details of the antecedants of 23 RCN officers and their operational dispositions (including Anthony Law, Charles Burk, Douglas Maitland, Cornelius Burke, Thomas Ladnor, Walter Charron, Charles Chaffey, Ian Hay, Daniel Lang, Malcolm Knox, David Wright, Robert Buckingham, Harry Trenholm, Robert Moyse, Thomas Poapst, Jack McClelland, Donald Harrison, Ian Robertson, Walter Blandy, Leslie Bowerman, Gordon Cahill and Thomas Forrester,), accounts of operation patrols in the North Sea and English Channel, the escape of Gneisenau, Scharnhorst and Prinz Eugen, battles in the Mediterranean, the invasion of Africa, Sicily and France, etc., faint crease in spine and lower cnr. upper wrapper, bookseller label half title, edges tanned, near fine,

Keywords: war ww2 navy coastal forces


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