“The Life and Death of HMS Bullen” by Vic Ould is published

LONDON - Aug. 7, 2015 - PRLog -- About the Book:

A warship built in the U.S.A. under 'Lease Lend' for the Royal Navy she was classed as a 'Destroyer Escort' and re-classed in the Royal Navy as a 'Frigate'.

As with many warships in WW2 she was 'manned' with Men and Boys many of whom together with the ship lasted less than 12 months.

The 'Boys' became 'Men' in that short time and many were wounded and died for freedom and their country. As in the previous book by the author 'Last But Not Least' which was about a 'sister' ship, these are personal memories of some survivors with illustrations and photographs from the author's collection.

Excerpt from the Book:

“The HMS Bullen story is not about that ship’s involvement in some great, one-off naval battle like Trafalgar, Jutland, or the River Plate.  The destroyers, frigates and corvettes that escorted vital supplies to Britain from the start in 1939, and to Russia from 1941 onwards; that took equally vital reinforcements of men and equipment to the armies battling in Africa and Asia, and later saw our invading forces safely ashore, first in Italy and then in Normandy, were engaged in a single, long, drawn-out battle that lasted for the whole of the war.  They fought not only against the submarines, surface ships and aircraft of our enemies, but also against the sometimes atrocious weather and, perhaps the most insidious enemy of all, boredom.  But the ships’ companies of these (it must be said) not always perfectly-designed vessels saw it through to the end; they did their best, and their best was good enough, with something to spare.”

About the Author:

Vic Ould, a Battle of the Atlantic veteran, was 18 years old at that time, serving on HMS CARRON a destroyer protecting special convoys.

Vic retains his close connection with the Royal Navy by being a volunteer working on the historic warship HMS BELFAST at London Bridge and he has volunteered on HMS CAVALIER at the Historic Dockyard, Chatham in Kent.

The Life and Death of HMS Bullen is available in paperback from Amazon at:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Death-HMS-Bullen/dp/1785073559

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