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CHANCE, Peter Godwin. Before It's Too Late: A Sailor's Life 1920-2001. vi, 233p., illus., index. Sidney, B.C.:, author, 2001. ISBN: 0973014504.

While still at school he joined the RCNVR as a midshipman and at the start of the war immediately went to sea on St Laurent. In August 1940 he went to Dartmouth as a special entry cadet and after graduating went to Mauritius which soon headed for the Indian Ocean. Early in 1942 he joined Liddesdale for his small ship time on East Coast convoys. He joined Anson briefly for his qualifying exams and in May 1943 joined Skeena on North Atlantic convoy work as a sublieutenant. She then took part in D-Day but that October ran aground in a storm and was lost off Iceland. In December 1944 he joined the new corvette Seacliff. Early in March 1945 he joined Gatineau but almost immediately switched to Ottawa for the final months of the war. A rather factual unemotional account.

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