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OGDEN, Graeme. My Sea Lady: The Story of HMS Lady Madeleine from February 1941 to February 1943. 201p., illus. London: Hutchinson, 1963.

The autobiographical memoir of the RNVR Captain of an ocean- going A/S trawler. She was attached to the 4th Clyde Escort Force, and after escorting North Atlantic convoys the ship moved to the Arctic. She escorted PQ16 and returned with QP13, getting caught in the fringes of the PQ17 disaster. After more convoys, the author was hospitalised in Belfast in February 1943.

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Autobiography; Small Craft, Trawlers, and Coastal Forces;

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