Alan Bunce
speaker
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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Death could strike anywhere on that bridge.
But then, death could strike anywhere on the whole ship.
For the plating of which she was constructed was hardly thicker than paper.
Even a machine gun bullet could penetrate it if it struck square.
The ship was an eggshell armed with sledgehammers.
Mosshead, report smoke.
Green, one-nine, sir.
The captain replying to his secretary, paymaster, sub-lieutenant James Jerningham, and giving the order to his chief Yeoman.
So, that's that.
Just three words.
Spoken quietly to himself by Captain, the Honorable Miles Ernest Thornton Harrington-Yorke.
A man of far fewer words than name.
However, the economy of a speech relied the torrent of thought that went roaring through his brilliant mind at the first report.
He twisted on his stool and looked round him over the bulging sea.
There on the port quarter wallowed the convoy.
The fat, helpless merchant ships that carried within them the salvation of Malta.
Food.
New inner tubing for anti-aircraft guns.
Shells, heavy guns, mountings, and ammunition.
The convoy had to get through.
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