Venturer top secret by Ian f. Sime
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Very much a book of its time, this is a rollicking yarn in the spirit of Biggles and the "Boy's Own" collections.

It's of particular interest to those connected to the heritage of Kurt Hahn as the author was a teacher at Gordonstoun School and the plot is loosely based on the voyage of the school's vessel, the "Prince Louis of Wales", during WWII. The archivist at Gordonstoun reports that the Prince Louis was sailed by a crew of boys with 4 professional sailors provided by the Blue Funnel line. She took three weeks to make the voyage from the Moray Firth in Scotland through the Caledonian Canal to Aberdovey in Wales and narrowly missed a ramming when she fell in with a blacked out convoy in the Irish Sea.

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