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Crampton Moorhouse Publications' 3rd book by Nina Baker 

  “Supposed Killed or Drowned by Enemy Action at Sea” Scottish Merchant Navy women who died as a result of enemy action in the First and Second World Wars.


 

I am an engineering historian and former seafarer, and wrote this book to tell some of the stories of the courageous women seafarers who made the ultimate sacrifice in wartime. 

My book is the first complete list of the female professional seafarers in the United Kingdom’s Merchant Navy who lost their lives due to enemy action. Detailed profiles have been researched for those women who were of Scottish, bringing their stories to light for the first time.

Most names on public war memorials are military men’s names, with a very few for Merchant Navy seafarers. Among the Merchant Navy seafarers who sailed voyage after voyage, knowing that each one might be their last as so many ships were sunk by enemy action, were a few women.

I researched this book because I started to wonder who the women might be whose names are in the National Merchant Navy Roll of Honour. At the annual Merchant Navy Memorial Day events, some of these names are read out but I knew nothing about the women and their lives. It turned out that the National Roll was itself incomplete. Now, for the first time, complete lists of all known Merchant Navy women lost in the two world wars are provided and are enhanced by biographies of the Scottish women who made the final sacrifice. Nearly all have no grave but the sea.

Read this review by a serving female seafarer.  

To buy the paperback book, you can order direct from me via Ebay, at £7.00, including UK postage and packing. Let me know if you want it to be signed.

If ordering from outside the UK, please use Lulu or Amazon as they will be quicker and may even be cheaper:  Lulu (paperback or ebook) or Amazon (paperback only)

  

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