Battleship Ramillies

"These first-hand accounts of life aboard HMS Ramillies encompass the long and distinguished career of a battleship that was the last to join the Grand Fleet in 1917 and then survived to fight throughout the Second World War. In many respects her career was typical rather than extraordinary but, like any large ship, to her crew she was unique - and she was certainly the only ship in British naval history whose captain wore a grass skirt into battle, honouring a Maori belief that the ship would come to no harm while he did so. Indeed, Ramillies survived the War despite being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. This book, prodduced with the full support of the HMS Ramillies Association, is a tribute to the ship in words and photographs, ... assembled from a combination of interviews with surviving crew members, and carefully researched diaries and written accounts by those connected with the ship ...."--Back cover.

Year

2014

Language

English

Publisher

PEN & SWORD BOOKS

Editions

1

Pages

256

ISBN

9781848322073

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