I remember reading it over 20 years ago and it was OK. I remember thinking the author had some very naive and utopian ideas about mixed gender relations at sea. There was something about how there were no intimate relations going on because that would be unprofessional. Now that's a howler.
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Ships, men and weapons change, but tradition, which can neither be bought nor sold nor created, is a solid rock amidst shifting sands.
- Admiral Lord Fraser of North Cape
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