The Cruel Sea

by Nicholas Monsarrat | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 014100732x Global Overview for this book
Registered by cackleberry on 4/7/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by cackleberry on Saturday, April 7, 2007
Hardback. 416 pages. Published 1951.

In 1939 Lieutenant Commander George Erickson, after service in the Merchant Navy, is recalled to the Royal Navy and given command of "HMS Compass Rose", a newly-converted Flower Class corvette intended for convoy escort duties. His officers are mostly newly-commissioned and without experience at sea.

Despite these initial disadvantages, the ship and crew work up a routine and gain experience. The junior officers mature and the crew cross the Atlantic many times on escort duty, in the course of which they sink a submarine. They are nearly sunk several times and eventually, they are torpedoed and forced to abandon ship. Ericson survives this ordeal, but most of the crew do not.

Together with his now-promoted executive officer, Lockhart, Erickson takes command of a new ship, "HMS Saltash Castle" and they continue the monotonous but vital duty of convoy escort. They capture one German submarine.

The story relates the horror of war at sea, including the constant danger, the privation, the boredom, the grim humour of the sailors, and the women who are left behind.

The attached photographs shows a Flower Class Corvette, "HMS Coreopsis", battling a moderate storm in the north Atlantic...


Journal Entry 2 by cackleberry at The Mall in Armidale, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Released 16 yrs ago (6/5/2007 UTC) at The Mall in Armidale, New South Wales Australia

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