At All Costs (38 page)

Charles Henry Walker (veteran, HMS
Ledbury
)

ROYAL NAVY LETTERS OF PROCEEDING, FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, LONDON

Operation Pedestal

Rear Admiral Harold Burrough, Commander, Force X

Admiral R. Leatham, Vice Admiral, Malta

Rear Admiral A. L. St. G. Lyster, Commander, Fleet Air Arm

Air Vice Marshal Keith Park, Commanding Air Officer, RAF Mediterranean

Acting Vice Admiral Neville Syfret, Commander of the Fleet

HMS
Ashanti:
Commander R. G. Onslow

HMS
Bramham:
Lieutenant Eddie Baines

HMS
Cairo:
Commander C. C. Hardy

HMS
Eagle:
Captain Lachlan D. Mackintosh

HMS
Eskimo:
Commander E. G. Le Geyt

HMS
Furious
(Operation Bellows): Captain T. O. Bulteel

HMS
Indomitable:
Captain Tom Troubridge

HMS
Ithuriel:
Lieutenant Commander D. H. Maitland-Makgill-Crichton

HMS
Kenya:
Captain A. S. Russell

HMS
Ledbury:
Lieutenant Commander Roger Hill

HMS
Manchester:
Sub-Lieutenant F. H. Munro

HMS
Nigeria:
Captain S. H. Paton

HMS
Pathfinder:
Commander E. A. Gibbs

HMS
Penn:
Lieutenant Commander J. H. Swain

HMS
Somali:
Commander E. N. Currey

HMS
Wolverine:
Lieutenant Commander Peter Gretton

SS
Almeria Lykes:
Lieutenant Commander H.D.S. Marshall, liaison officer

SS
Brisbane Star:
Lieutenant E. D. Symes, liaison officer

SS
Clan Ferguson:
Mr. A. H. Black, second officer

SS
Deucalion:
Captain Ramsay Brown

SS
Dorset:
Captain Jack Tuckett

SS
Dorset:
Lieutenant P. T. Bernard, liaison officer

SS
Empire Hope:
Captain Gwilym Williams

SS
Glenorchy:
Mr. B. H. Skilling, second officer

SS
Melbourne Star:
(signature illegible), liaison officer

SS
Ohio:
Lieutenant D. E. Barton, liaison officer

SS
Port Chalmers:
A. G. Venables, commander (RN retired), Commodore of the Merchant Fleet

SS
Rochester Castle:
Captain Richard Wren

SS
Rochester Castle:
Lieutenant E. J. Reisfield, liaison officer

SS
Santa Elisa:
Lieutenant Commander A. Barnes, liaison officer

SS
Waimarama:
Mr. John Jackson, third wireless operator

SS
Wairangi:
Captain H. R. Gordon

Boarding of Italian Submarine

HMS
Ithuriel:
Lieutenant J. R. Evans

Operation Statue (the towing of
Ohio
by tugboats)

HMS
Robust
: Commander H. J. Jerome

J. P. Pilditch, commander (RN retired), Assistant King’s Harbour Master

Operation Harpoon/Vigorous

Admiral Henry Harwood, Commander in Chief, Mediterranean

HMS
Cairo:
Acting Captain C. C. Hardy

HMS
Partridge:
Lieutenant Commander W. A. Hawkins

SS
Kentucky:
Captain C. J. Roberts

SS
Kentucky:
Lieutenant Huntley, liaison officer

SS
Troilus:
J. P. Pilditch, commander (retired), Commodore of the Convoy

Operation Hats

HMS
Illustrious:
Captain Denis Boyd

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

S
AM
M
OSES
is the author of the acclaimed race-driving memoir
Fast Guys, Rich Guys and Idiots.
He began writing as a U.S. Navy seaman on a heavy cruiser in action off Vietnam, and was for eighteen years a feature writer for
Sports Illustrated.
He lives with his two sons in White Salmon, Washington.

ALSO BY SAM MOSES

Fast Guys, Rich Guys and Idiots

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The New Yorker,
July 3, 1943). Reprinted by permission of Holly Gill.

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: Excerpts from
Memoirs of the Second World War
by Winston Churchill, copyright © 1959 by Houghton Mifflin Company and copyright renewed 1987 by Lady Mary Soames. Rights outside of the United States are controlled by Curtis Brown Limited, London. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company and Curtis Brown Limited.

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: Excerpts from
Destroyer Captain
by Roger Hill. Reprinted by permission of Periscope Publishing Ltd., Penzance, Cornwall, UK.

MARY JEANNE SUPPIGER:
Excerpts from
The Malta Convoy
by Gerhart S. Suppiger, Jr., Commander U.S.N.R. Reprinted by permission of Mary Jeanne Suppiger.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Moses, Sam

At all costs: how a crippled ship and two American merchant mariners turned the tide of World War II / by Sam Moses.

p. cm.

1. World War, 1939–1945—Campaigns—Mediterranean Sea. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Transportation—Mediterranean Sea. 3. World War, 1939–1945—Naval operations, American. 4. World War, 1939–1945—Naval operations, British. 5. Merchant marine—United States—History. 6. Naval convoys—Mediterranean Sea—History. 7. Larsen, Frederick August, 1915– 8. Dales, Francis. 9. World War, 1939–1945—Norway. I. Title.

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