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Chargement... Sub-Lieutenant: A Personal Record of the War at Seapar Ludovic Kennedy
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In the final pages of his memoir, Prime Minister Winston Churchill is on board having transferred from HMS Prince of Wales, off Iceland, after his Atlantic Charter meeting with President Roosevelt. Full details of the movements of HMS Tartar are at https://www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-10DD-34Tribal-HMS_Tartar.htm + https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4229.html.
By the end of May 1941 (637 days of war), HMS Tartar held two records. She was the first British destroyer to have spent 200 days at sea in the Second World War and the first to have steamed 100,000 nautical miles since the start of the war. For most of Ludovic Kennedy's time in HMS Tartar, her captain was Commander Lionel Peyton Skipwith RN (1902-1978).
Ludo's is a tale well told, war at sea for two years through the eyes of a young officer who had lost his father in the first weeks of the war; it includes a number of black and white plates - but how I wish there was an index! ( )