Robert Harling's The Steep Atlantic Stream: A Memoir of Convoys and Corvettes supplies a first-hand account of wartime corvette service. Its lived detail helps bring together the wider research behind a Flower-class study. One officer described in the memoir later served in a Tribal-class destroyer but continued to prefer corvettes because a corvette had been his first command. His attachment shows how a first command could matter more personally than a later posting in a hard-fighting Tribal-class destroyer.
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A convoy memoir for corvette history
Robert Harling's first-hand memoir adds the lived experience of convoy work and corvette service to technical research.