Flower Class Corvette

[Henry Wood]

Originally Posted by andym

One of the best lines ever was in "THe Cruel Sea".


Scene:Wardroom at breakfast time,2 Officers sat having breakfast,in comes the !st Lt who says.................................."SNORKERS!Go od O!"

That's right! Stanley Baker played the part, rather a bad egg too, not quite cut out to be proper officer material, and when he conveniently developed an ulcer, well...

A great movie and book which I never tire of watching and reading as they both equally give a vivid portrayal of life on the little ships. I have just taken it back down from my bookshelf to re-read after finishing my present book.

"Lieutenant-Commander George Eastwood Ericson, R.N.R., sat in a stone cold, draughty, corrugated-iron hut beside the fitting-out dock of Fleming's Shipyard on the River Clyde."