PADDLE STEAMERS AT WAR 1939-1945
Written by Russell Plummer
Published by GMS Enterprises
in 1995
ISBN: 1870384393
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- MARITIME
- PADDLE STEAMERS
- WORLD WAR II
- MILITARY
PADDLE STEAMERS AT WAR 1939-1945
Written by Russell Plummer.
Stock no. 1827402
1st.
1995.
Softcover.
Very good condition.
Compiled and Edited by Russell Plummer. published to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of the end of World War Two, commemorates the part played in it by British paddle steamers and a tribute to the men who served aboard or were rescued by them. Oblong format. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 1870384393. Covers lightly browned. Contents clean.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- Vessels Requisitioned for War Service
- The Clyde Steamers at War
- One officer's evacuation story
- 'Operation Dynamo'
- With the Devonia before Dunkirk
- Speeding home on the Britannia
- Campbell flyer was at Dunkirk
- When Lorna joined the Navy!
- Laid-up vessels requisitioned
- Priestley's fussy little steamers..
- An Emperor answers the call
- Some of the war's ferry stalwarts
- The three survivors
- Acknowledgements