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Originally Posted by Hugh  Yes, Spidge same sort of thing although I am not sure if this tactic was common among the U-boats..I will see if I can find out more. Do you know if the Cruel Sea was based on fact or fiction? A good film though.
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Hugh |
It was a novel by Nicholas Monsarrat R.N.V.R.
Educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge. Joined R.N.V.R at start of WWII as a sub-lieutenant and rose to Lieutenant-Commander. Spent his time on convoy work, latterly in charge of a frigate. Director of UK Information Office in Johannesburg 1946-53, Ottawa 1953-56. Chairman of National War Memorial Health Foundation of South Africa. Awarded Heinemann Foundation Prize for Literature 1951, Coronation Medal 1953. Made Chevalier of the Sovereign Order of St John of Jerusalem 1973. Died 1979. His ashes were scattered over the sea.
He also wrote other novels:
(book) Three Corvettes (1945)
(book) HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbour (1952)
(book) The Kapillan Of Malta (1973)
(book) Monsarrat At Sea (1975)
(book) The Master Mariner (1978)
(autobiography) Life Is A Four-Letter Word (Vol1 1966/Vol2 1970)