Derek Law Bibliography

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BEEDIE, F. A. Acting Able Seaman – Hostilities Only: A Memoir. 299p., illus. [n.p., independently published], 2020. ISBN: 9781657954991.

A pleasant autobiography. Born in 1925, he lived through the Portsmouth Blitz. Aged 17 he volunteered for the RN and trained in HMS Collingwood, at Havant and at the HMS Excellent Gunnery School. In November 1943 he joined the old Hunt Class Minesweeper Alresford based in Portsmouth as a guard ship. She was decommissioned in early 1945 and he then joined the Bay Class frigate Whitesand Bay. Commissioned at the end of July 1945 she worked up at Tobermory then sailed to the Far East and Australasia, returning to the UK at the end of 1946.