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BROCK, Jeffry V. The Dark Broad Seas: Memoirs of a Sailor (With Many Voices, vol. 1). 275p., frontis. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1981. ISBN: 0771016239.

Memoirs of one of Canada's most distinguished naval officers from 1939 to the end of the Korean War. It traces his wartime career from the RCNVR to transfer to England in 1940, appointment as First Lieutenant of the trawler Berkshire then quickly to his own command of the trawler Kirkella, based in the Bristol Channel. In April 1941 he moved to the corvette Ranunculus, then building on the Clyde, but when she was handed over to the Free French he was given Stonecrop, which joined 37EG on the Gibraltar run. This was followed by command of Bazely, building in the US then fighting with 4EG in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Promotion in 1944 brought command of 6EGC and a continuation of the Atlantic War, until he commanded the last eastbound convoy. He finished the war ashore in Canada. The second volume, subtitled The Thunder and the Sunshine covers his post-war career.