The Coxswain

As the Guadalcanal campaign got underway, the new coxswain of the Australian fleet destroyer Wind Rode found himself faced with a twin challenge—to sort out the bad apples who had come aboard as replacements for men lost in a recent action … and to somehow find his way back to the man he had been before being sunk a couple of years earlier. That time he had almost drowned in a cabin that filled frighteningly fast with seawater.

Something in him had changed, he’d lost his pride in himself and the Senior Service for whom he served. And a coxswain like that is no use to anyone. So Commander Peter Bentley made up his mind to throw the ’Swain a metaphorical lifeline … even if he had to take on the entire Japanese Navy to do it!

  • Author: J. E. Macdonnell
  • Title: The Coxswain
  • Series: The Naval War Series
  • First Published by: Horwitz
  • First Published Format: HC
  • First Published Date: 1960

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