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Coastal Force Actions. Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday, 15 October 1948, Number 38432, pp.5493–5511.

A miscellany of despatches; from Admiral Harwood, C-in-C Levant referring to an action off Sicily on 15-16 February 1943, with enclosures from Lieutenants Giles and Hennessy; a despatch from Admiral Pridham-Wippell, FOC Dover, on the sinking of a supply ship in a Channel convoy on 26-27 September 1943, with enclosures from Lieutenants Ward, Larive, and Rooper; from Admiral Tovey, C-in-C The Nore on an action with E-boats in the Channel on 18 November 1943; and a despatch from Admiral John Cunningham, C-in-C Mediterranean Station on an action against a convoy on 11-12 October 1944 near Vir in the Adriatic, with enclosures from Captain Stevens, Commander McIlWraith of Mediterranean Coastal Forces, and Lt. Commander Bligh who fought the action. Includes four plans. Reprinted in 2014 in a collection of nine despatches edited by John Grehan as  The War at Sea in the Mediterranean 1940-1944  and published by Pen & Sword Maritime (ISBN: 1783462221).