My great uncle Albert Whiting was one of the men who died on the HMS Formidable along side Captain Loxley, his little dog and over 500 other poor souls. So I bought this book to try and find out as much as I could about what happened that night. Whilst reading the book it was strange to realise that my great-uncle would have known this little dog.
I also never knew that the Lassie stories came into existance that night because of the saving of one man buy a dog from a town near where the mens lifeboats and bodies came ashore.
A very interesting little book