The narrow Channel between England and the Continent has always been vital to our safety. That was where Drake took on his enemies, the Spanish Armada -- and in the last war it was where the little ships of the torpedo flotillas took on their German foes, sweeping them back from our shores. This story is about these patrol boats and the heroes who sailed them. And especially it is about Bill Ashby, flotilla commander, who conquered not only the fast E-boats, but even Germany's mightiest battleship!
The narrow Channel between England and the Continent has always been vital to our safety. That was where Drake took on his enemies, the Spanish Armada -- and in the last war it was where the little ships of the torpedo flotillas took on their German foes, sweeping them back from our shores. This story is about these patrol boats and the heroes who sailed them. And especially it is about Bill Ashby, flotilla commander, who conquered not only the fast E-boats, but even Germany's mightiest battleship!