"HMS Rose had a history of tragedy. The old sailors who could remember her past said that she was jinxed and ought never to sail again, but in the lastdays of 1940, as the phoney war drew to an end, Britain needed every ship she could lay her hands on, to challenge the might of Hitler's Kriegsmarine. So it was Lietenant-Commander John Lamb who found himself commanding the old destroyer "Rose, with a crew of misfits and troublemakers, and set sail...