Derek Law Bibliography

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EDNEY, W. P. Scuppers to Skipper: Life in the Royal Navy 1934-1958. c.105p., illus. [author: Kindle e-book, 2015]. ISBN: 9781508548669.

He joined the RN as a boy sailor aged fifteen in 1934 and retired as a Lieutenant Commander commanding a minesweeper based at Malta in 1958. This interesting but bland autobiography charts his steady rise through the ranks. About half concerns his wartime service, notably on the destroyer Vanoc in the Battle of the Atlantic. He later served with shore parties setting up communications in newly liberated ports.