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Dedication and Thanks

 

Arnold Hague, born 1930, carried out his National Service from 1949 as a Midshipman, Supply & Secretariat, then joined the Reserve Division in London, retiring as a Lieutenant Commander in 1979. In this time, his appointments included command of two Reserve Communications Centres and the Sea Cadet Corps in the West Midlands area.

 

His published books include “The Towns, Destroyers for Great Britain”, “Sloops 1926-1946”, “Convoy Rescue Ships”, “The Allied Convoy System 1939-1945” and co-author of “Convoys to Russia”. He was also as sub-editor of “Jane’s Fighting ships” in the late 1960’s and made numerous contributions to naval publications over the last forty years. He died in February 2006, and is much missed in naval history circles.

 

It is therefore with great pleasure that Naval-History.Net, through the good offices of Arnold’s close friend and collaborator, Don Kindell and with the kind permission of his wife, Gill Hague (also a former Reserve Officer), hosts his unpublished and invaluable work on the WS convoys.

 

As with all of Arnold’s work, primary official sources were the key and this work is no exception, relying as it does on Official Admiralty War Diaries, narratives, and convoy reports, Lloyds ship movement cards, etc. 

Photographs are courtesy of David Page of NavyPhotos (NP). My thanks to him and his contributors.