Derek Law Bibliography

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HAMPSHIRE, A. Cecil. Armed with Stings: The Saga of a Gunboat Flotilla. 203p., illus. London: Kimber, 1958.

The history of the Insect Class river gunboats. Built in WWI, they served on the rivers of China in the 1920s and 1930s. In WWII they served with distinction in Hong Kong, the Persian Gulf and in the Mediterranean, notably in support of the 8th Army. A workmanlike history.

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Small Craft, Trawlers, and Coastal Forces;

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