The Rescue Ships and The Convoy's mug The author remembered staring down

The author remembered staring down from the stalling aircraft to see a terror stricken fitter gazing up at him

Undeterred either by either enemy action or atrocious weather conditions

A wise directive has purposely made them as unromantic in colour and in design as a wise directive could imagine

Passion-killers: Airwomen's service knickers

Hitler’s Arctic War also includes a chapter on the campaign fought by Luftwaffe aircraft and Kriegsmarine ships and submarines against the Allied convoys supplying the Soviet Union with aid

The Rescue Ships and The Convoy's mug The author remembered staring downThe Rescue Ships and the Convoys tells the history of one of the least known aspects of Second World War maritime history. Despite the threat of heavy losses of ships and lives, no hospital ships, which had to be lit, could accompany the convoys as they would betray a convoys position. The solution was to create a fleet of 30 small Merchant Navy vessels of about 1,500 gross tons, mostly from coastal trade. These Rescue Ships, commanded and manned by