The little vessel rode the successive wakes of the cruisers and the merchantmen, lingered to record also...
Action stations sounded at that moment, and we rushed for the turret door, unsure whether in the next...
Toop was there, giving the final items of the Captain's orders to the turret hoist crew. So in order to...
The Manchester was down by the stern, indeed almost submerged aft; the forepeak was high, almost clear of...
But the recollection of the torpedo striking the Manchester was still vivid in my memory, and I could not...
I recall little of the following day; food must have been brought to me, for I know that by the late...
In sunny spells Coates and I, with others from the fo'c'sle messes on the Manchester, would...
We were to proceed up Loch Striven on board Alecto to a kind of offshoot of the main headquarters called...
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...
For me the A/S nets held no fears; I had clambered about on them in Loch Corrie, and on a chariot gone...
Within a day, all the officers forming X-craft crews, both passage and action, were summoned to the...
Geordie Nelson, X5's diver, then came to talk with, me. At once I imagined the diver there in the half...
As I took my seat, I studied them closely: could they be in the pay of the enemy, not real army officers,...
Jack had ordered periscope depth, and was studying, through one of them, the effects of the towing manilla...
Heading them was the skipper, Jack Oakley, all of twenty-eight years old, and balding, seeming more or less...
Jack Smart had complained about the porpoising, now we knew, with a vengeance, what he meant, for we were...
I think Jack muttered 'Christ!' under his breath and turned away. We were welcomed inboard by Jack...
Naturally the older hands from the first batch, such as Strugnell and Eldridge and Ede, were around to give...
So I remained on Tites, and spent my time helping other divers into and out of their suits, filling and...
Then I had to keep the speed down, while Pearcy made sure he wasn't left hanging on to the net; he had...
At this depth underwater, movement was slow, but Pearcy was managing to lift up rung after rung, and...
This meant that the five-foot long warhead that fitted on to the nose of the chariot hadn't been joined...
For the French channel ports and similar harbours within range of coastal forces such as MTBs or MGBs it...
The darkness underwater at attack depth was so great that it was almost impossible to be sure when you were...
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