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CAMERON'S CROSSING

1st. 1993

George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Limited

London

ISBN 0 297 84052 5

A navy cloth bound book with silver lettering to the spine in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine unclipped dust wrapper. Pages have a tinge of yellowing starting at the edges - common with many from this publisher.

The author

Born in 1920 his obituary appeared in the Daily Telegraph 26.07.96. He joined the Royal Navy as a signalman in 1939 and served throughout the Second World War in a variety of ships, including the cruiser HMS Vindictive, the ocean boarding vessel LARGS, and the escort carrier HMS RAVAGER, ending the war as a lieutenant, RNVR. His first novel was published in 1957. He went on to become one of the fifty most read authors of the British lending library system, annually qualifying for the £6,000 maximum payable sum for Public Lending Rights.

Blurb

Cameron, now a lieutenant-commander RNVR, is under orders to take a newly assembled ship's company across the North Atlantic to recommission a destroyer in a United States port. They take passage aboard HMS Charger, an escort aircraft carrier on loan from the United States under the Lend Lease agreement and about to proceed to the USA for refit following heavy action damage.
Expecting himself and his officers and men to be little more than passengers, Cameron finds himself in an ambiguous situation when in a freak storm the already damaged carrier suffers severely to the extent that her flight deck lifts at the fore end, aircraft in the hangar are smashed to pieces, the steering engine begins to flood and the ship is in danger of broaching-to. There are casualties to the ship's own officers and Cameron is obliged to take an executive role in a ship to which he is not officially appointed. Meanwhile, the carrier's Captain, physically badly injured in the atrocious weather and resulting damage, now shows signs of severe mental stress amounting to incapacity and finally Cameron, the most senior officer left, is obliged to assume command of a vessel on the verge of sinking.
jacket illustration by Ross Watton

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