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    Yachting Monthly

    Navigating on the eve of war

    Aug 15, 2019 4 minutes

    THE CRUISE OF NAROMIS: AUGUST IN THE BALTIC 1939

    G.A.Jones Published Golden Duck, 2016, £8.99

    George Jones was 21 years old and working in Birmingham when he volunteered for the RNVSR. On 1 August 1939 he was approached by a previously unknown member of the RNVR London Flotilla and asked whether he’d like to join a small motor yacht going to Danzig (Gdansk). George agreed; a passport was arranged for him (he’d never been abroad before) and 10 days later he was on his way.

    The Stock Exchange was just about closing for the weekend that Friday night in August as I turned down into Walbrook towards Cannon Street Station. I must have been a strange sight with

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