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Tag Archives: Minesweeping
‘A Passage to Sword Beach’ by Brendan A. Maher
One of the joys of selling second-hand books is the opportunity to read your stock. When cataloguing I try to summarise the content of all our non-fiction but occasionally you come across one that you dip into and just can’t … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Book reviews, Navy, World War 2
Tagged Coastal Forces, HMML137, HMS Cardiff, HMS Jason, Minesweeping, Navy, Normandy, WW2
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Collecting Royal Naval Patrol Service books
(…originally published in the ibooknet newsletter for November 2002) A brief history of the Royal Naval Patrol Service The Royal Naval Patrol Service (RNPS) was a ‘navy within a navy’ during WW2. In 1939 much of Britain’s domestic freight distribution … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, Books, Navy, Royal Naval Patrol Service, World War 2
Tagged Anti-submarine, Authors, Convoy escort., HMS Europa, Lowestoft, Minesweeping, Navy, RNPS, Sparrows Nest, WW2
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