Battleship Ramillies : the final salvo / Ian Johnston with Mick French ; foreword by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnston, Ian, 1948- author.

French, Mick, author.

HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, author of introduction, etc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ramillies (Battleship)--History.

Ramillies (Battleship).

Great Britain. Royal Navy--History--20th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Place of Publication:

South Yorkshire, England : Seaforth Publishing, 2014.

Summary:

HMS Ramillies was the last battleship to join the Grand Fleet in 1917 and survived to fight in the Second World War. Although the ship did not make headlines, she was actively employed from start to finish, and even survived being torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. In this respect she was typical rather than extraordinary but, like any large ship, to her crew she was unique - 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; Ramillies survived the war).This book, p

Contents:

Contents; Foreward; Acknowledgements; Introduction; HMS Ramillies: A Brief History; Early Days; Photo Gallery: Launch to 1939; Serving on Ramillies: A Bird''s Eye View; ''What''s the Buzz, Bunts?'': Signalmen on HMS Ramillies; The New Zealand Connection; Operation Ironclad: Madagascar, 1942; Operation Neptune: D-Day, June 1944; Boys at Sea; Life Onboard Ship; Royal Marines on Ramillies; Photo Gallery: World War II; The Home Front; Heroes Return: Normandy Revisited; The Ramillies Sculpture; Notes; Index; HMS Ramillies: Vital Statistics

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4738-3744-8

1-4738-3722-7