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The Story of HMS Venomous
by John A Rodgaard
Here is the exhaustive and exhilarating story of HMS Venomous, one of 67 V&W destroyers built at the end of the Great War that were to play a key role in the struggle to keep the sea lanes open in the Atlantic, Home Waters and the Mediterranean during the following war. Her story was perhaps the most memorable of all her class. When war broke out, she was to find herself on the front line as the German blitzkrieg swept across Europe in 1940, and the V&Ws made high-speed dashes across the Channel to bring troops and civilians back from Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk and prepared for the expected invasion. Later that year, she and her sister ships escorted the Atlantic convoys, which supplied our Russian allies with the weapons to halt the German advance. She returned to the Mediterranean and took part in Operation Pedestal to save Malta. As the allies prepared for the landings in North Africa, she was ordered to escort the destroyer depot ship, HMS Hecla, to the invasion beaches. When Hecla was torpedoed off the coast of Morocco, Venomous fought the attacking U-boat and rescued 500 survivors. She escorted convoys along the coast of North Africa, including the first-through convoy from Gibraltar to Alexandria. This book is a detailed and thrilling account of the life of a typical V&W class destroyer.
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The Story of HMS Venomous
by John A Rodgaard
Here is the exhaustive and exhilarating story of HMS Venomous, one of 67 V&W destroyers built at the end of the Great War that were to play a key role in the struggle to keep the sea lanes open in the Atlantic, Home Waters and the Mediterranean during the following war. Her story was perhaps the most memorable of all her class. When war broke out, she was to find herself on the front line as the German blitzkrieg swept across Europe in 1940, and the V&Ws made high-speed dashes across the Channel to bring troops and civilians back from Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk and prepared for the expected invasion. Later that year, she and her sister ships escorted the Atlantic convoys, which supplied our Russian allies with the weapons to halt the German advance. She returned to the Mediterranean and took part in Operation Pedestal to save Malta. As the allies prepared for the landings in North Africa, she was ordered to escort the destroyer depot ship, HMS Hecla, to the invasion beaches. When Hecla was torpedoed off the coast of Morocco, Venomous fought the attacking U-boat and rescued 500 survivors. She escorted convoys along the coast of North Africa, including the first-through convoy from Gibraltar to Alexandria. This book is a detailed and thrilling account of the life of a typical V&W class destroyer.
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| Book Author | John A Rodgaard |
|---|---|
| Genre | War |
