Alan Bunce
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257 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Jul
Alan Bunce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It always did.
He hoped none of the men on duty up here had seen him jump.
The second time, he was sure his feet had left the deck.
The gin was appalling, and with every broadside, he was shaken by the hot blast of the guns.
The captain gave an order to the navigating lieutenant, and soon HMS Artemis healed and turned abruptly away from the enemy and back into the comforting smoke and darkness and silence.
Gunnery up, sir.
We shall be opening fire again in two minutes.
And Artemis was already keeling over on the turn as she punched back into the smoke screen to seek out her enemies once more.
Every man of the ship knew that the better he did his work now, the better would be his chance of life.
And the above torch brought its tons of steel again toward the eye tides.
Artemis was shooting superbly.
The captain could see that with his own eyes as he turned his binoculars upon the Italian flagship.
The enemy salvos were creeping closer.
It was nearly time to retire again.
A mile away, another British ship, HMS Hera, had emerged from the smoke screen, spitting fire from all our turrets.
With Hera out of the screen and the other cruisers beginning to show beyond her, it was for Artemis to withdraw and leave the Italians to their weary task of getting the range on these new elusive targets.
And Artemis plunged back into the protecting smoke.
Then it happened.
Fifty salvos had been fired at Artemis without scoring a hit.
Now, when she was invisible in the smoky fog, a chance shell hit her.
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