He once boarded a Russian frigate to gather intelligence: ‘I went snooping around inside gun turrets and other places. It was fun’
He once boarded a Russian frigate to gather intelligence: ‘I went snooping around inside gun turrets and other places. It was fun’
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His debut book resurrected the reputation of Sir James Saumarez, placing him in the first rank of naval commanders in the era of…
He could find key valves and controls throughout his submarine blindfold, something he practised in case of loss of electrics,…
After four months at sea, he left the destroyer Hardy weeks before it was sunk, a loss that haunted him for years
Like many navigating officers, Reffell demanded precision and cogent arguments; as Commander-in-Chief, Gibraltar, he was held in…
During the Third Cod War, he was the navigator in the frigate Andromeda when it was rammed by the Icelandic vessel Týr in 1975
Arriving with HMY Britannia, he interpreted for the Duke of Edinburgh, Boris Yeltsin and a St Petersburg deputy mayor called…
