Send a Gunboat

The orders from the Admiralty to the Captain were explicit. He was to take his ship to the small island of Santu, which lay under threat of invasion from the Communist mainland of China, and evacuate the British colony there. The ship, however, was the flat-bottomed, antiquated River gunboat H. M. S. Wagtail, waiting in a Hong Kong harbor for the disgrace of the breaker's hammer to overtake her. Her captain, Justin Rolfe, embittered by the verdict of a court-martial, knew that the assignment offered more than escape from misery and humiliation-it was a reprieve for himself and his ship.

Author: Douglas Reeman
Publisher: McBooks Press
Published: 01/01/2017
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.20w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781590137291
ISBN10: 1590137299
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Sea Stories
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | War & Military

About the Author
Douglas Reeman served in the Royal Navy in the Atlantic and Mediterranean campaigns during World War Two. He has written 37 novels under his own name as well as 28 novels featuring Richard and Adam Bolitho under the pseudonym Alexander Kent.