His debut book resurrected the reputation of Sir James Saumarez, placing him in the first rank of naval commanders in the era of Nelson
His debut book resurrected the reputation of Sir James Saumarez, placing him in the first rank of naval commanders in the era of Nelson
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He once boarded a Russian frigate to gather intelligence: ‘I went snooping around inside gun turrets and other places. It was fun’
He could find key valves and controls throughout his submarine blindfold, something he practised in case of loss of electrics,…
A connoisseur of the offbeat, he interviewed the last human cannonball and wrote a superb biography of the eccentric poet RS…
After losing a fortune he recouped it through writing, and waged a vociferous campaign against the EU on the Daily Telegraph…
During the Third Cod War, he was the navigator in the frigate Andromeda when it was rammed by the Icelandic vessel Týr in 1975
Often flanked by a ‘pack of blondes’, he shared his father’s belief in aiming intelligent books at ‘people without university…
