Front Cover Illustrations: HMS Affray photographed from the starboard bow before leaving for Australia in October 1946, copyright of Wright and Logan, Royal Navy Submarine Museum (top). Members of HMS Affray’s crew in its engine room, Crown copyright (bottom).

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