7/6/2023 0 Comments The cruel sea bookThe ship has been well worked up, and is clean and generally efficient. Compass Rose,” he wrote, in an oldfashioned, somewhat laborious longhand, “completed her program of training on February 2, 1940, and may be regarded as having passed out satisfactorily. He was concerned only with facts and of these he had mustered a great many, during the past three weeks. He did not know what lay in store for these ships or those men: it would not have made an atom of difference if he had been writing an epitaph on men due to be drowned tomorrow. He was writing a report: it was one of hundreds of reports, on ships and men, that he was to write, month in and month out, until the end of the war. VICE-ADMIRAL Sir Vincent Murray-Forbes sat at his desk in the operations building overlooking Liverpool harbor.
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