Derek Law Bibliography

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DEAR, Ian. The Tattie Lads: the untold story of the Rescue Tug Service in both world wars and its battle to save ships, lives and cargoes. 304p., illus. London: Conway, 2016. ISBN: 1844864014.

        Although part of the Royal Navy, the contribution of the Rescue Tug Service remained curiously absent from the naval history of the Second World War. Yet the Service had developed what a wartime American newspaper called 'a new type of naval vessel--the British fighting escort tug' and had saved millions of tons of shipping, both warships and merchant ships, not to mention the crews and the precious cargoes. The official history of the Merchant Navy did not mention the Service either, nor do other books on the war at sea.