Battleship Ramillies
eBook - ePub

Battleship Ramillies

The Final Salvo

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Battleship Ramillies

The Final Salvo

About this book

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, produced with the full cooperation of the HMS Ramillies Association, is a tribute to the ship in words and photographs, deftly assembled from a combination of interviews with surviving crew members, and carefully researched diaries and written accounts by those connected with the ship, including HRH the Duke of Edinburgh for whom Ramillies was his first ship. Many personal photo albums were unearthed to provide previously unpublished illustrations, which add a further dimension to a vivid picture of naval life in an almost-forgotten era.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 HMS Ramillies: A Brief History
  10. 2 Early Days
  11. 3 Serving on Ramillies: A Bird’s Eye View
  12. 4 ‘What’s the Buzz, Bunts?’: Signalmen on HMS Ramillies
  13. 5 The New Zealand Connection
  14. 6 Operation Ironclad: Madagascar, 1942
  15. 7 Operation Neptune: D-Day, June 1944
  16. 8 Boys at Sea
  17. 9 Life Onboard Ship
  18. 10 Royal Marines on Ramillies
  19. 11 The Home Front
  20. 12 Heroes Return: Normandy Revisited
  21. Notes