A Flock of Ships
by Brian Callison
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1941: as part of a small Allied convoy, the British freighter M.V. Cyclops races through the South Atlantic with a cargo of secrets. One of the convoy is torpedoed and sunk...a mysterious distress call is received from another ship... the Radio Officer disappears... and then Cyclops seems to open fire on her sister ship.....
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Amazing story of a ship found on an uninhabited island 25 years after the incident, and the captain reading the story which had been written by the survivor. Taut, exciting, gripping. First read it about 35 years ago and always remembered it as an excellent read. Second time around it did not disappoint!
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- Canonical title
- A Flock of Ships
- Original title
- A Flock of Ships
- Original publication date
- 1970
- People/Characters
- Jonathan Kent; Captain Evans; Curtis; Conway; Larabee
- Dedication
- To Hugh C. Keith Late Chief Engineer
Blue Funnel Line - First words
- The ship had lain there for many years - Ten? Fifteen? Maybe even twenty?
- Quotations
- Captain Evans was stark naked except for his braided cap - and the shaving cream. Obviously the U-boat had picked an inconvenient time to introduce itself. I suppose I must have looked a bit startled as I stared at the Old ... (show all)Man, noting detachedly how the red beefy face and tanned bull neck faded away into a bleached expanse of snowy skin under matted black hair. Ship's masters never sun-bathe, of course, but then, neither does God, I suppose, and they are more or less on a par.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And the Commander saluted the Red Ensign as it climbed slowly up the scarred staff and fluttered proudly once again over the rusty ship resting forever in that distant inland sea.
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- Maclean, Allistair
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- Dutch, English, Finnish, Swedish
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
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