To include Bay of Biscay, Western Approaches, English Channel, North Sea etc.

Click here to go to E. Keble Chatterton's " The Epic of Dunkirk " page at camberpete.co.uk !
Click for more information on THE SEA HERITAGE - this study by Jellicoe's Flag-Captain, later Admiral Sir Frederic Dreyer, in WW1 - a valuable book for its interesting material on the pre-war and war periods. The Jutland material is the highlight. This book and others for sale at camberpete.co.uk
 A first hand account of HMS Glasgow’s part at the Falklands, 1914 and subsequent destruction of SMS Dresden. Uniquely Harold Hickling discusses the problems facing the Island’s kelpers after Coronel. The author commanded HMS Glasgow in WW2 and played a major part at Normandy.
Those Wallowing Beauties - W. D. 'Jim' Jarman. D-Day was a logistical achievement of unprecedented complexity. There was, however, a serious shortage of landing craft. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten requisitioned over a thousand Thames barges. Some four hundred were commandeered by the Royal Navy when they were converted, many provided with ramps, armed, and motorized. They were manned by 'volunteers', of whom many were previously Thames lightermen. The sole objective of these unlikely craft was the support of a seaborne invasion. This book is a valuable historical document, carefully organized and meticulously researched, offering an excellent insight into a little known aspect of the Second World War. The inclusion of the many extracts from veterans' own experiences adds colourful authenticity to the work.
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Click on this image to go to Chalmers' biography of Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay; entitled " Full Cycle " @ camberpete.co.uk
RAIDERS FROM THE SEA by REAR-ADMIRAL LEPOTIER covers WW2 Allied WWII Combined Operations prior to D-Day, predominately St. Nazaire and Dieppe. Published in English 1984
 In June 1941 the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Ark Royal was instrumental in the destruction of the German battleship Bismarck. A dozen Swordfish torpedo-bombers took off from her deck launched torpedo after torpedo at the giant ship, which was crippled and sank the next day. Within weeks, the Ark Royal was destroyed while sailing off the coast of Gibraltar, torpedoed by a German U-boat. She rested, one kilometre below the surface of the Mediterranean, until her wreck was discovered by Mike Rossiter in 2004. ARK ROYAL: THE ADMIRALTY ACCOUNT OF HER ACHIEVEMENT: Issued for the Admiralty by the Ministry of Information London : His Majesty’s Stationary Office 1942. A Sixty-four page paperback illustrated throughout with black and White photographs and three maps showing HMS ARK ROYAL’s position throughout the war.
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Click on this image to go to Captain Victor Korzh's story of service in WW2 aboard a Russian submarine " Red Star Under the Baltic " page at camberpete.co.uk !