Description
Object description
Two volumes of well-written ts memoirs (165pp and 173pp respectively), the first covering his voyage out to the Far East and service on the China Station as First Lieutenant of the Yangtse River gunboat HMS SCARAB, September 1932 - January 1934; the second his commands, in the former American destroyer HMS BROADWAY, of C2 Escort Group on North Atlantic convoys, April 1942 - May 1943, and in the frigate HMS BENTINCK of the 4th Escort Group on North Atlantic convoys, September - November 1943, and convoys to West Africa and the Mediterranean, November 1943 - June 1944, and his appointment as Staff Officer (Operations) at the HQ of the Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches in Liverpool, August 1944 - May 1945. The latter memoir throws valuable light on the many frustrations and occasional rewards of the convoy protection at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic and on the weapons and tactics of the Escort Groups as well as containing some interesting descriptions of attacks by escort vessels on U-boats, notably HMS BROADWAY's destruction of U 89 in May 1943. With the memoirs are a cartoon and a photocopy of the plot relating to the sinking of U 89, a signed copy (8pp) of Captain H N Lake's history of Western Approaches Command during the Second World War, written in 1945, and two photographs of Commander Chavasse in uniform, one with his brothers at an investiture.
Content description
Two volumes of well-written ts memoirs (165pp and 173pp respectively), the first covering his voyage out to the Far East and service on the China Station as First Lieutenant of the Yangtse River gunboat HMS SCARAB, September 1932 - January 1934; the second his commands, in the former American destroyer HMS BROADWAY, of C2 Escort Group on North Atlantic convoys, April 1942 - May 1943, and in the frigate HMS BENTINCK of the 4th Escort Group on North Atlantic convoys, September - November 1943, and convoys to West Africa and the Mediterranean, November 1943 - June 1944, and his appointment as Staff Officer (Operations) at the HQ of the Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches in Liverpool, August 1944 - May 1945. The latter memoir throws valuable light on the many frustrations and occasional rewards of the convoy protection at the height of the Battle of the Atlantic and on the weapons and tactics of the Escort Groups as well as containing some interesting descriptions of attacks by escort vessels on U-boats, notably HMS BROADWAY's destruction of U 89 in May 1943. With the memoirs are a cartoon and a photocopy of the plot relating to the sinking of U 89, a signed copy (8pp) of Captain H N Lake's history of Western Approaches Command during the Second World War, written in 1945, and two photographs of Commander Chavasse in uniform, one with his brothers at an investiture.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1982-02