Last Run Ashore

Last Run Ashore is the often grim but frequently hilarious story of mainly lower-deck life on a Flower Class corvette of the Royal Navy. <br /> <br /> Set near the end of World War II, the crew of the Dandelion is charged with giving coastal support to the 14th Army in Burma. A colorful cast of characters that includes an officer’s wife and an ordinary seaman stranded together on a drifting buoy, a down-on-his-luck scrap metal dealer, and a ship’s dog with its own rum ration makes for entertaining reading as the story builds to the eventual, spectacular fate of their warship. <br /> <br /> About the author: John Moger is a retired Fleet-Street journalist, now 80. He served in the Royal Navy 1943-46 on a “Big Ship,” a cruiser, and later on the more relaxed mess deck of a corvette, typified by the pipe-call: “Hands to Bathe and Skylark!”