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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In exactly four minutes, the enemy shot up suddenly over the curve of the world, climbing over it with astonishing speed.
Visibility was at its best.
The enemy ships made hard, sharp silhouettes against the blue and gray background.
Paymaster, Sub-Lieutenant James Jerningham, knew himself to be a coward.
But some time ago, he made up his mind to be a coward lacking in nothing.
He spent hours in his cabin, carefully studying the pictured profiles of hostile ships.
Study carried out in a mood of desperation, of despair.
And he had a photographic memory which enabled him to recall the very pages on which he had seen those profiles.
Even the very print beneath them.
I suppose she's the new one, Cadorna.
And the intelligence people didn't get her profile right.
I, uh, I expect you're right.
I think I am, sir.
Out of 500 who started as naval cadets, only one man ever reached the lofty rank of a Captain R.N.
Only a few grades lower than God.
That's the thought Jurningham had at that particular moment.
It was followed by another that saved him from some of his bitter feeling of inferiority.
He, Jurningham, could spot ships better than his captains.
It did not mean he respected the captain less.
Admired him less.
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