HEROISM AT SEA
In "Valiant Sailormen" Keble Chatterton continues his version of various tales of adventure, disaster, and heroism at sea which have provided him with the material for so'many former books. He does not in this book confine himself to one p.eriod or one locality, as in those dealing, with the late war, or to one class of sea adventure. Here we have wrecks of windjammers in the last century, adventures of "Q-ships" or transports in their contests with German submarines in the Great War, together with the more recent adventures of British ships which survived Caribbean hurricanes or failed to survive North Atlantic gales. Any sort of sea story is grist to Mr. Chatterton's mill, provided it gives him an opportunity to dilate upon the •heroism and skill of seafaring men — chiefly his own countrymen, though not exclusively, for he is always ready to pay a tribute to those qualities no matter by whbm they are displayed, even by the enemies of his country. The book is illustrated with photographs and is well up to Mr. Chatterton's usual standard.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 27
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181HEROISM AT SEA Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 27
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