Origins
Author Nicholas Monsarrat's own career was the model for that of his character Lockhart, a Fleet Street reporter in the 1930s, commissioned as a naval reservist. Monsarrat spent the war in antisubmarine escort ships, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. His first book, Three Corvettes was published in 1945. After the war he was a publicity officer at British missions overseas (notably Ottawa) before becoming a full-time writer.
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