Naval autobiographies still worth wishing for

Which naval figures without autobiographies would have been especially illuminating?

He names Collingwood, Ramsay, Henderson, and Sherbrooke among others, valuing the perspectives they could offer beyond the most famous naval biographies.

The desired autobiographies include Collingwood, Ramsay, Henderson, and Sherbrooke rather than only the obvious celebrity of Nelson. Collingwood would illuminate the post-Trafalgar work that a Nelson-centred story can miss, while Sherbrooke could describe his experience as a Tribal commander and Victoria Cross recipient. Later discussion notes that Nimitz deliberately resisted a full biography during his lifetime and that surviving Ramsay material falls short of a complete autobiography. Missing memoirs leave gaps which official records, letters, and fragments can only partly fill.