In which famous novel does the HMS Compass Rose sink?
"June 1952. While awaiting disposal at Malta in 1952, ""Coreopsis"" was acquired by Ealing Studios for the film ""The Cruel Sea"", in which she took the part of the fictional Flower-class corvette, HMS ""Compass Rose"". During filming at Plymouth, she collided with the destroyer causing some damage to the latter. In the film, she wore the pennant number K49, actually the number of . She finally arrived at the breaker's yard of Thomas Young & Sons in Sunderland on 22 July 1952 where she was scrapped. HMS Coreopsis (K32) HMS ""Coreopsis"" was a , built for the Royal Navy during"
"RN could not supply a single vessel to play ""Compass Rose"" in the 1953 film production of Nicholas Monsarrat's novel ""The Cruel Sea"". The Royal Hellenic Navy supplied (formerly ) for the role prior to her scrapping. The only survivor of the entire class is , owned by the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust. She was laid up in reserve in March 1946 and converted in 1952 to a research vessel for Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries, a role she served in until the early 1980s when she was acquired by the trust. She has been restored to her wartime"
"HMS Rose (1757) HMS ""Rose"" was a 20-gun (""Seaford""-class) sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy, built in Hull, England in 1757. Her activities in suppressing smuggling in the colony of Rhode Island provoked the formation of what became the Continental Navy, precursor of the modern United States Navy. She was based at the North American station in the West Indies and then used in the American Revolutionary War. She was scuttled in the harbor of Savannah, Georgia in 1779. A replica was built in 1970, then modified to match HMS ""Surprise"", and used in two films, ""Master and Commander:"
"accomplished, she raided the British coast and succeeded in taking HMS ""Swan"" and HMS ""Hector"". She later returned to Philadelphia in 1777. She was finally sunk by HMS ""Merlin"" in the fall of 1777 off New Jersey. USS Charlemagne USS ""Charlemagne"" is a fictional brig of war from the ""Revolution at Sea"" novel series by James L. Nelson. A Continental Navy warship, she is known as the first Continental command of Captain Isaac Biddlecomb in James L. Nelsons ""Revolution at Sea"" series. She was originally built as a privateer but was taken into the Rhode Island State Navy to stop"
"U-boat sunk, ""Compass Rose"" is herself torpedoed and her crew forced to abandon ship. Most of the crew are lost. Taking to a couple of liferafts, Ericson survives this ordeal along with his first lieutenant, Lockhart (Donald Sinden), and with the few crew left (including Ferraby) are picked up the next day. Ericson is promoted commander, and together with Lockhart, his now-promoted ""Number One"", takes command of a new frigate, HMS ""Saltash Castle"". With Ericson leading an anti-submarine escort group they continue the monotonous but vital duty of convoy escort. Late in the war, while serving with the Arctic convoys,"
"Merchant Navy officer in the Royal Naval Reserve, is recalled to the Royal Navy and given command of HMS ""Compass Rose"", a newly built intended for convoy escort duties. His sub-lieutenants, Lockhart and Ferraby, are both newly commissioned and without experience at sea. The new first lieutenant, James Bennett (Stanley Baker), is an abusive martinet. Despite these initial disadvantages, the ship's company gains hard experience and becomes an effective fighting unit. At first their worst enemy is the weather, since German submarines lack the range to attack shipping far into the Atlantic. With the Fall of France, French ports become"
"Ericson, a Merchant Navy and Royal Naval Reserve officer, is recalled to the Royal Navy and given command of the fictitious HMS ""Compass Rose"", newly built to escort convoys. His officers are mostly new to the Navy, especially the two new sub-lieutenants, Lockhart and Ferraby. Only Ericson and the petty officers are in any way experienced. Despite these initial disadvantages, the ship and crew work up a routine and gain experience. Bennett, the first lieutenant, a mean and shirking disciplinarian with a penchant for bullying and canned sausages (snorkers), leaves the ship ostensibly for health reasons, and the junior officers"
"rises out of the water. The ship breaks in half, lifting the stern into the air. Jack and Rose ride it into the ocean and he helps her onto a wooden panel buoyant enough for only one person. He assures her that she will die an old woman, warm in her bed. Jack dies of hypothermia but Rose is saved. With Rose hiding from Cal en route, the RMS ""Carpathia"" takes the survivors to New York City where Rose gives her name as Rose Dawson. Rose says she later read that Cal committed suicide after losing all his money in"
", with the loss of 46 lives, after a collision with MS ""Stockholm"" made the headline. In 1985, was hijacked off the coast of Egypt by members of the Palestinian Liberation Front, resulting the death of one of the hostages being held by the hijackers. In 1994, she caught fire and sank off the coast of Somalia. Ocean liners have a strong impact on popular culture, whether during their golden age or afterwards. In 1867, Jules Verne recounted his experience aboard in his novel ""A Floating City"". In 1898, writer Morgan Robertson wrote the short novel ""Futility, or the Wreck"
"Waves"". It was also figured as a key setting in Ian Fleming's novel ""Thunderball"". SS Sapona SS ""Sapona"" was a concrete-hulled cargo steamer that ran aground near Bimini during a hurricane in 1926. The wreck of the ship is easily visible above the water, and is both a navigational landmark for boaters and a popular dive site. ""Sapona"" was built by the Liberty Ship Building Company of Wilmington, North Carolina, as part of a fleet of concrete ships authorized by Woodrow Wilson during World War I, because steel was in short supply. Like many others in the fleet, the ship"
"be made available for use in the film. (In the book, the new ship which replaced ""Compass Rose"" was a fictional HMS ""Saltash"". These ships were significantly larger than the Castle-class corvettes, but had been paid off or sold abroad when the film was made. However, in 1954 a recommissioned Royal Canadian Navy River-class frigate was made available to play the fictional HMS ""Rockhampton"" in the John Wayne film ""The Sea Chase"".) In the film, when boarding their new ship, the characters of Ericson and Lockhart remark that neither of them have heard of a castle in Saltash – in"
"1815. The fictional HMS ""Surprise"" was a sixth rate ship. It was the frigate captained by Jack Aubrey and was based on the actual historical frigate, formerly the French ""Unité"", which was captured and renamed by the Royal Navy in 1796. The Surprise plays a prominent role in many of Patrick O'Brian's popular novels, collectively known as the Aubrey–Maturin series, and was portrayed in the 2003 film """". In the novel ""Mason and Dixon"" by Thomas Pynchon the title characters set sail for Sumatra in 1761 to view the Venus transit in the sixth-rate ship ""Seahorse"". The novel ""The Watering"
"Atlantis in popular culture The mythical island of Atlantis has often been depicted in books, television shows, films and other creative works of popular culture. Before 1900 there was an overlap between verse epics dealing with the fall of Atlantis and novels with a pretension to fine writing which are now regarded as pioneering genre fiction. Jules Verne’s ""20,000 Leagues Under The Sea"" (1869/71) includes a visit to sunken Atlantis aboard Captain Nemo's submarine ""Nautilus"". In Elizabeth Birkmaier's ""Poseidon's Paradise: the Romance of Atlantis"" (San Francisco 1892), the island sinks following an earthquake. C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne also depicted the"
"in the huge Tall Ship Race ""Columbus 500"" in 1992. until 2001 when she was purchased by Fox Studios, sailed to Southern California and altered to resemble for the Peter Weir movie """", based on the books by Patrick O'Brian. Renamed, ""Surprise,"" the vessel is now a part of the Maritime Museum of San Diego as a dockside attraction. HMS Rose (1757) HMS ""Rose"" was a 20-gun (""Seaford""-class) sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy, built in Hull, England in 1757. Her activities in suppressing smuggling in the colony of Rhode Island provoked the formation of what became the Continental"
"such violent tidal surges: Three of the most notable literary references to the Lofoten Maelstrom date from the nineteenth century. The first is the Edgar Allan Poe short story ""A Descent into the Maelström"" (1841). The second is ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"" (1870), the famous novel by Jules Verne. At the end of this novel, Captain Nemo seems to commit suicide, sending his ""Nautilus"" submarine into the Maelstrom (although in Verne's sequel Nemo and the Nautilus were seen to have survived). The ""Norway maelstrom"" is also mentioned in Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"". In the 'Life of St Columba', the author,"
"Mary Rose The Mary Rose is a carrack-type warship of the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII. After serving for 33 years in several wars against France, Scotland, and Brittany and after being substantially rebuilt in 1536, she saw her last action on 1545. While leading the attack on the galleys of a French invasion fleet, she sank in the Solent, the straits north of the Isle of Wight. The wreck of the ""Mary Rose"" was rediscovered in 1971. It was raised on 11 October 1982 by the Mary Rose Trust, in one of the most complex and expensive"
"and a disastrous collision with an iceberg. In the sixth book, ""The Fortune of War"", the ship is left at a British station in the Dutch East Indies, unable to support her complement of guns. She is called the ""horrible old ""Leopard"""" in the fourth book in the series ""The Mauritius Command"", and in other books in the series, and ends its days as a store ship sailing from the English Channel to the Baltic. HMS Leopard (1790) HMS ""Leopard"" was a 50-gun ""Portland""-class fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and"
"and the real-life sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"". In 1912, the German ""Berliner Tageblatt"" newspaper published a book in serial form that ran from January 9 until April 24. This work of fiction was written by Gerhard Hauptmann, who would receive the Nobel Prize in Literature later that year. One month before the fateful April maiden voyage of the RMS ""Titanic"", the story was published by S. Fischer Verlag as the novel ""Atlantis"". ""Atlantis"" is a romantic tale set aboard the fictitious ocean liner ""Roland"", which is coincidentally doomed to a fate very similar to that of the RMS ""Titanic""."
"vessel used by the Americans in the War of 1812. He writes that after December 1992, ""when I happened on a new book on Baltimore clippers, I picked up a copy to send him."" Thus the vessel is named ""Ringle"", and its amazing sailing properties well-described, and used for critical parts of the plot, like saving Maturin's family and fortune. The Commodore (novel) The Commodore is the seventeenth historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by British author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1995. The story is set during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. In this novel, Aubrey"
"rare items, and weapons. Taking place in England in 1930, ""Rule of Rose"" centers on Jennifer, a 19-year-old woman who is led to an abandoned orphanage by a small boy. She follows him to a grave in the courtyard, where she digs up a coffin with a bloody sack inside it. Four children sneak up on her and pour water on her, before shoving her into it, and she loses consciousness. She awakens in an abandoned airship ruled by a cruel group of young girls known as the Red Crayon Aristocrats: the mysterious Princess and Prince of the Red Rose;"
"takes his newly arrived reinforcements out to sink the ""Königin Luise"". Having succeeded in this, he sends Rose and Allnutt to the coast to speak to the British Consul, where he advises Allnutt to enlist in the British Army. Rose and Allnutt agree that when they reach the coast they will ask the Consul to marry them. The story ends with the narrator's comment that ""Whether or not they lived happily ever after is not easily decided."" The MV ""Liemba"" was the inspiration for the German gunboat. The novel was made into a film in 1951: ""The African Queen"", starring"
"the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Back in the present, Lovett decides to abandon his search after hearing Rose's story. Alone on the stern of ""Keldysh"", Rose takes out the Heart of the Ocean – in her possession all along – and drops it into the sea over the wreck site. While she is seemingly asleep or has died in her bed, photos on her dresser depict a life of freedom and adventure inspired by the life she wanted to live with Jack. A young Rose reunites with Jack at the ""Titanic"" Grand Staircase, applauded by those who died on"
"""Rose of Devon"". Once aboard the frigate, Phil quickly impresses the captain with his skills. When the boatswain is killed in an accident, Phil is promoted to replace him. After a violent storm, the crew of the ""Rose of Devon"" encounters a wrecked ship. While rescuing the survivors, Phil is surprised to see that they are coincidentally led by the Old One. Although the Old One and his followers initially put on a mask of friendliness, they soon reveal their true nature as pirates, killing the Rose's captain and seizing control of the ship. Tempted by the promise of vast"
"Australia, ""Sydney"" encountered the German auxiliary cruiser ""Kormoran""; the two ships destroyed each other and ""Sydney"" was lost with all hands; the wrecks of both ships were located in 2008. Warren Tute's novel ""The Cruiser"" features ""HMS Antigone"", a ""Leander""-class cruiser with a striking similarity to ""HMS Ajax"". Douglas Reeman's novel ""A Ship must die"" is set aboard the titular fictional ""Leander""-class cruiser ""Andromeda"" pitted against a German surface raider operating in the Indian Ocean Leander-class cruiser (1931) The ""Leander"" class was a class of eight light cruisers built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s that saw service"
"The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility (originally called Futility) is an 1898 novella written by Morgan Robertson. The story features the fictional ocean liner ""Titan"", which sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. ""Titan"" and its sinking have been noted to be very similar to the real-life passenger ship , which sank fourteen years later. Following the sinking of the ""Titanic"", the novel was reissued with some changes, particularly in the ship's gross tonnage. The first half of ""Futility"" introduces the hero John Rowland. Rowland is a disgraced former US"
"RMS Titanic in popular culture The RMS ""Titanic"" has subsequently played a prominent role in popular culture since her sinking in 1912, with the loss of over 1,500 of the 2,200 lives on board. The disaster and the ""Titanic"" herself have been objects of public fascination for many years. They have inspired numerous books, plays, films, songs, poems, and works of art. ""Titanic""'s story has been interpreted in many overlapping ways, including as a symbol of technological hubris, as basis for fail-safe improvements, as a classic disaster tale, as an indictment of the class divisions of the time, and as"
"of HMS ""Rose"" in New York for a pier-side party to celebrate the publication of Patrick O’Brian's latest novel. O’Brian himself was present, and he casually mentioned to the frigate's captain, Richard Bailey, that if the ""Rose"" were painted in an 1805 colour scheme she would be a ""dead ringer"" for the frigate ""Surprise"" that appeared in his books. Bailey quickly ordered his crew to get out the paint and make the changes. O’Brian was so impressed that he changed his mind about his prohibition of having any of his books converted into film, and Norton immediately started looking for"
"""Coreopsis"" was located in Malta by one of the film's technical advisers, Capt. Jack Broome DSC RN (who had been escort commander of the ill-fated Convoy PQ 17). ""Coreopsis"" had been loaned to the Hellenic Navy and renamed ""Kriezis"", and was awaiting a tow back to England and the breaker's yard. ""Compass Rose"" carries the pennant number ""K49"", which was in reality the number of HMS ""Crocus"". ""Saltash Castle"" was portrayed by , pennant F362, as in the film. Although she had been paid off in 1947, she was held in reserve until broken up in 1958, and so could"
"publication of Patrick O'Brian's latest novel. O'Brian himself was present, and he casually mentioned to ""Rose""s captain Richard Bailey that if ""Rose"" were painted in an 1805 colour scheme she would be a ""dead ringer"" for the frigate ""Surprise"" that appeared in his books. Bailey quickly ordered his crew to get out the paint and make the changes. O'Brian was so impressed that he changed his mind about his prohibition of having any of his books converted into film, and Norton immediately started looking for a Hollywood production company. The ship was sold to the 20th Century Fox film studio"
"is posted to the Pacific during the First World War. He is marooned on the remote Galápagos island of ""Resolution"" when the cruiser he is serving on, HMS ""Rutland"", is sunk. A German battlecruiser (the fictitious SMS ""Ziethen"") takes him prisoner whilst it defeats an inferior British force. It then suffers damage in a second encounter and her captain plans to pull into an isolated Pacific anchorage to try to repair his vessel. There, the resourceful Brown escapes, steals a rifle and a small amount of ammunition, and makes his way ashore. The German vessel's main battery cannot be brought"
"it in the river delta. In the book the German gunboat ""Königin Luise"" (referred to by hero Charlie Allnutt as ""Louisa"") is based on ""Kingani"", a German gunboat sunk on Lake Tanganyika and to a certain extent the events portrayed in the film are based on the dramatic naval operation carried out by the Royal Navy, but the events described in the book bear little resemblance to the true historical events. The book was subsequently made into the 1951 classic film ""The African Queen"", starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. The steam-tug ""Buganda"" on Lake Victoria, which was used for"
"RMS Titanic RMS ""Titanic"" was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, and more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. RMS ""Titanic"" was the largest ship afloat at the time she entered service and was the second of three s operated by the White Star Line. She was built by the Harland and Wolff"
"Hornblower and the Atropos Hornblower and the Atropos is a 1953 historical novel by C.S. Forester. Horatio Hornblower is posted to HMS ""Atropos"", the smallest vessel in the Royal Navy that merits command by a post-captain, as he salvages treasure from the Mediterranean Sea. On a December day in 1805, Hornblower travels with his very pregnant wife and their son to London on a canal boat via the Thames and Severn Canal and the Thames. He is excited about getting his new orders and obtaining his first command as a post-captain. On the canal, the assistant boatman becomes incapacitated through"