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I realise now that, on an unhappy ship, we would have been bullied unmercifully; on Londonderry the tone...
We were to proceed up Loch Striven on board Alecto to a kind of offshoot of the main headquarters called...
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The operation for which the X-craft were being prepared was now deemed of such urgency that Alecto was to...
The operation for which the X-craft were being prepared was now deemed of such urgency that Alecto was to...
Jack had ordered periscope depth, and was studying, through one of them, the effects of the towing manilla...
Geordie Nelson, X5's diver, then came to talk with, me. At once I imagined the diver there in the half...
I think Jack muttered 'Christ!' under his breath and turned away. We were welcomed inboard by Jack...
As I took my seat, I studied them closely: could they be in the pay of the enemy, not real army officers,...
Jack Smart had complained about the porpoising, now we knew, with a vengeance, what he meant, for we were...
Heading them was the skipper, Jack Oakley, all of twenty-eight years old, and balding, seeming more or less...
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