Uncommon Courage by Jones Julia;

Author:Jones, Julia;
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2022-01-22T00:00:00+00:00

There’s a horrifying anecdote of a seaman who went below into the forecabin of one of these boats during a rough passage. He fell and injured himself so he could not move: by the time he was found, he had been battered to death.

Hichens remained furious at the lack of effective provision. Two years into the war, feeling scarred by battles for equipment that were almost as hard-fought as enemy engagements, he had happened to look into a 1938 edition of Jane’s Fighting Ships. There, he saw an advertisement for exactly the fast, rugged, torpedo boat – the E-boats – that he and his fellows were struggling to challenge in their inferior underequipped craft.

And here it all was laid out for us in Jane’s. Come see, come buy! The Admiralty could have bought as many E-boats as they wished, and indeed were pressed to do so, but one short year before the outbreak of war. Well, well! Talk about visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children! The sins of our elders’ omissions certainly pressed heavily on the fighting young. I wondered gloomily whether anybody had been sacked or even censured for not taking the most elementary interest in the preparation of our country for war in the sphere of the fast surface craft.7

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