The Royal Navy that Brian Bethen Schofield joined at the beginning of the Twentieth Century truly ruled the waves. Safe anchorages spanned the globe and faster, better armored ships with revolutionary weaponry were coming into service.After serving as a midshipman in The Great War, Schofield qualified as a navigator and interpreter in French and Italian. At the outbreak of The Second World War he was Naval Attaché in The Hague and Brussels before becoming Director of Trade Division (Convoys) during the critical years 1941-1943. While commanding the battleship King George V he witnessed the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay in August 1945.O’er The Deep Blue Sea is a superbly written memoir offering a fascinating insight into a bygone era. Anyone with more than a passing interest in British naval history will enjoy the Author’s graphic yet modest account of an exceptional career.

• Cover
• Author
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Maps
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword by Victoria Schofield
• Chapter 1 Disciplina, Fide, Labore
• Chapter 2 Pare Bellum
• Chapter 3 The Harwich Force
• Chapter 4 HMS Renown
• Chapter 5 ‘A most reliable Navigator’
• Chapter 6 Of languages
• Chapter 7 East of Suez in the Enterprise
• Chapter 8 ‘The good ship Malaya’
• Chapter 9 ‘The bands of Orion’
• Chapter 10 Staff Officer on board the Nelson
• Chapter 11 Diplomacy before War
• Chapter 12 ‘The race is not to the swift’
• Chapter 13 HMS Galatea
• Chapter 14 ‘Sail on O ship of State!’
• Chapter 15 ‘The peril of the waters’
• Chapter 16 From Duke of York to Dryad
• Chapter 17 The KGV and the Pacific
• Chapter 18 Glad Waters
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Biographical timeline
• Acknowledgements
• Plate section