The new edition of: A HARD FOUGHT SHIP: THE STORY OF HMS VENOMOUS was (at last!) published on the 14 April 2010. The book launch at the RN Museum in Portsmouth was attended by some of the officers and men who served on VENOMOUS and family members of others who have sadly "crossed the bar". The book can be bought from Amazon or your local bookshop but if you wish to support
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The book launch for: A HARD FOUGHT SHIP: THE STORY OF HMS VENOMOUS will be held at the Royal Navy Museum in Portsmouth on the 14 April 2010. If you wish to attend please e-mail me. The book will include as an appendix a list of ratings and officers who are known to have served on HMS VENOMOUS. If a member of your family served on Venomous and you would like their name included plea
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It's nice to hear from you, Ralph, and I shall certainly let you know when the new edition of A HARD FOUGHT SHIP is published, probably in Autumn next year. The new author who took over when Bob Moore, the author of the first edition, died is Captain John Rodgaard USN, a distinguished naval historian as well as a serving officer i the USN. In the meantime can you please let me know whe
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There will be a detailed account of the part played by HMS VENOMOUS (plus some unique photographs never previously published) in rescuing survivors from HMS HECKLA in a new edition of A HARD FOUGHT FOUGHT SHIP: THE STORY OF HMS VENOMOUS (1990) by Robert J Moore to be published next year. The new edition will be jointly authored by Bob Moore and Captain John Rodgaard USN. I would be interested
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My apologies for not updating this Forum on plans to publish a new edition of Bob Moore's book (first published 1990) on HMS VENOMOUS. Bob died just over a year ago but an America naval historian, Captain John Rodgaard, has agreed to take over and it is expected hat the new edition will be published next year. John is of Anglo-Danish descent and a published author. It is still possible
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Lt Dennis who commanded HMS VALOROUS, one of two British destroyers sent to Kristiansand in May 1945 to accept the surrender of German naval forces, provided details of the U-boats at Marvika which formally surrendered on the 15 May aboard my father's ship, HMS VENOMOUS. I shall be quoting from his unpublished memoir which I consulted in the Library of the Imperial War Museum in London in
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