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IN GREAT WATERS: Memoirs of a Master Mariner(Nautilus Library No.27): Captain S. G. S. McNeil in 1884 at the age of thirteen and a half joined the Glasgow, a sailing ship, and ten years later served in his first steam vessel. He commanded the Lusitania and became Cunard's first staff captain in Mauritania. His account of his involvement in the Gallipoli landings and evacuations as a R.N.R. commander in WWI is especially interesting. Later he was appointed Master of the refitted Mauritania until his retirement. An extremely interesting account with a great deal of detail.
THE SHIP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD. Dan van der Vat tells of the Goeben's dash into the Black Sea to force Turkey into WW1 on the German side. The failure to bring the Goeben and the Breslau to action is laid squarely on the French and British navies.
CONVOYS, BLOCKADES and MYSTERY TOWERS: Captain D. J. Munro C.M.G., R.N. - Captain Munro was a Merchant Navy officer head hunted into the Navy for special duties. This work continues where the author's previous work, “Scapa Flow, A Naval Retrospect”, leaves off, in 1917. Munro, an officer who saw things in a slightly different perspective than the average naval officer, has interesting views on the problems facing the navy of the day.
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DARDANELLES; A Midshipman's Diary. Illustrated with 130 photographs and sketches. Penned portraits including criticisms of his seniors and detail of war aboard a broadside battleship. The author commanded a steam-picket-boat at the Sulva Bay landings.
Spun yarn & Bell Bottoms: an interesting first-hand account of twenty years' service from sail training ships to battleships. During the Great War took part in the Gallipoli campaign in the new Portsmouth built battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth and later the light cruiser HMS Cardiff in the North Sea. Commodore F. P. Froëst-Carr went on to found The Nautical Training Corps for young people.
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Admiral Mark Edward Frederic Kerr joined the Royal Navy in 1877 as a naval cadet in HMS Britannia and HMS Hindustan and by1898 reached the rank of commander. Early in WWI he served as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Hellenic Navy and, perhaps somewhat controversially kept Greece out of the war. Later he played an important part in the creation of the Royal Air Force in its embryonic years.
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