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ORIGINAL: steamboateng

An older novel, which I read away back in the early '60's, 'The Cruel Sea'' by Nicolas Montseratt, describes life on a Flower Corvette during the Battle of the Atlantic. A good read, if you can find it at your local library.

Yes, +1 here.

Also, 'The Good Shepherd', by C.S. Forester (who wrote the Horatio Hornblower novels). About a convoy commander battling through a wolf pack in the North Atlantic.

Spit9, i think many IJ warships have a troop/cargo cap, Allied warships have nil. also, IJ ships are better than Allied for stuffing troops into available cargo-space.

i'd assume that a ship already carrying a troop/airgroup load would NOT be able to perform rescue, even if the potential rescued guys belonged to the same LCU. in Cribtop's example posted above, only the partially-loaded 'supply only' ship made a rescue.

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ORIGINAL: sanch

Also, 'The Good Shepherd', by C.S. Forester (who wrote the Horatio Hornblower novels). About a convoy commander battling through a wolf pack in the North Atlantic.

I read that when I was in high school, even before I read his HH books, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

The best convoy novel I've ever read, though, is HMS Ulysses, by Alistair MacLean. Ulysses is a fictional Dido-class CLAA, and the plot is a fictionalized version of the ordeal of PQ-17.

I would also highly recommend MacLean's South by Java Head, a novel about a freighter and a tanker attempting to flee during the fall of Singapore.

ORIGINAL: Zigurat666

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