The Wreck of the Mary Deare, (Hammond Innes)

[Norman_E]

Whilst on holiday recently I found an old copy of this. Actually quite a good read, if a bit far fetched. It was made in to a film some years ago, and got a bit of a panning from some critics for plot inconsistencies, but I suspect that the film (which I have not seen) might not have followed the book exactly.

 

[Talbot]

Worth getting hold of his other books as well as most of them are good reads.

 

[jimi]

Absolutely .. a must read for those sailing in the Ionian is Levkas Man

 

[Talbot]

Full list of his books:

Air Disaster (1937)
The Doppelganger (1937)
Sabotage Broadcast (1938)
All Roads Lead to Friday (1939)
Wreckers Must Breathe (1940)
aka Trapped
The Trojan Horse (1940)
Attack Alarm (1941)
Dead And Alive (1946)
The Lonely Skier (1947)
aka Fire in the Snow
The Killer Mine (1947)
The Blue Ice (1948)
Maddon's Rock (1948)
The White South (1949)
aka The Survivors
The Angry Mountain (1950)
Cocos Gold (1950) (writing as Ralph Hammond)
Air Bridge (1951)
Campbell's Kingdom (1952)
Black Gold And Double Diamond (1953) (writing as Ralph Hammond)
The Strange Land (1954)
aka The Naked Land
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1956)
The Land God Gave to Cain (1958)
The Doomed Oasis (1960)
Atlantic Fury (1962)
Scandinavia (1963)
The Strode Venturer (1965)
The Conquistadors (1969)
Levkas Man (1971)
Golden Soak (1973)
North Star (1974)
The Big Footprints (1977)
The Last Voyage (1978)
Solomons Seal (1980)
The Black Tide (1982)
High Stand (1985)
Medusa (1988)
Isvik (1991)
Target Antarctica (1993)
Delta Connection (1996)

 

[Skyva_2]

He also wrote non fiction very relevant to us. He was a cruising yachtsman and the royalties from his books go to the Association of Sea Training Organisations.

"With his own boat, the Mary Deare, he explored the coasts of Europe from the Baltic to the Bay of Biscay. He was also vice-president of the Association of Sea Training Organization. Many of his travel pieces appeared in the American magazine Holiday. A collection of them, HARVEST OF JOURNEYS, was published in 1960. It was followed in 1967 by SEA AND ISLANDS."

Both books are very good.

 

[Norman_E]

Thank you for the information. I did not know for certain that he was a yachtsman, but his descriptions of sailing a large wooden boat, and of the powerful tides round the Channel Islands, struck me as being based on personal experience.

 

[Spuddy]

There was a motorsailer type in Troon that Ron McInnes said was first owned by H Innes.