The Loss of the English Trader: Rnli Coxwain Henry Blogg's Toughest Mission

by Cyril Jolly

This is the story of how a gallant but somewhat temperamental 'lady' of the Merchant Navy, the English Trader, met her end during World War Two, not at the hands of the Germans but of an older enemy - the sea. She had survived two years of war hazards; mines, torpedoes and bombs; sailed many thousands of miles (including 3,000 with all her four coal-filled holds on fire); and fetched and carried thousands of tons of valuable cargo to her U-boat threatened...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0906554063
• ISBN13: 9780906554067
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Lutterworth Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.8" x 7.4"