A Prayer for The Ship

1st. 1958

Jarrolds Publishers(London) Ltd.,

AN IMPRINT OF THE HUTCHINSON GROUP

London

ISBN

A blue cloth bound book with silver lettering to the spine with a light bump to the bottom corner of the front board and some patchy fading to top edges of both boards. A few fox spots to free endpapers but pages are very clean and bright. A very good fifty year old! In clipped and repaired dust wrapper.

The author

Douglas Reeman joined the Navy in 1941. He did convoy duty in the Atlantic, the Arctic, and the North Sea, and later served in motor torpedo boats. As he says, `I am always asked to account for the perennial appeal of the sea story, and its enduring interest for people of so many nationalities and cultures. It would seem that the eternal and sometimes elusive triangle of man, ship and ocean, particularly under the stress of war, produces the best qualities of courage and compassion, irrespective of the rights and wrongs of the conflict...The sea has no understanding of righteous or unjust causes. It is the common enemy, respected by all who serve on it, ignored at their peril.'

Blurb

During the last war the Royal Navy was called upon to perform countless deeds which, looking back, seem like a series of miracles. One of the most hard-pressed branches of the Service was that of the Light Coastal Forces--the Mosquito fleet which, consisting of motor torpedo boats and gun-boats crewed by the country's amateur sailors, nightly took the war into the enemy's territory in a ruthless campaign against overwhelming odds and a prepared and merciless foe.
Like many before and after him, Clive Royce was to know the bitterness of defeat and the temporary elation of success in the new and hazardous world in which he found himself. When confronted with the reality of leadership, under a series of terrifying circumstances, he feels that the demand on what he considers to be his limited ability is too great and comes near to breaking point and disaster. The story of his struggle and the clash of personalities about him, as his frail flotilla fights one desperate battle after another for mastery of the Narrow Seas, will make the reader realise how small was the margin between success and failure.
To the little ships and their crews, this story is humbly dedicated.

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