Signalman Jones (later Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey Holder-Jones DSM, VRD,RNVR) was born in liverpool in 1915, and his remarkable exploits at sea during the Second World War are here told for the first time. After he survived a German mine in the Thames estuary in 1939, the war took him, commissioned as a naval officer, to Iceland, Spitsbergen and the USA, Given command of his own ship, he patrolled the waters off Canada and Newfoundland before returning to britain in 1944. This true story, writen by Tim Parker on the basis of personal conversations and a scrapbook entrusted to him 60 years after the war, illuminates one of the great achievements of the war - the beating of the U-boat blockade of the American coast by squadrons that were little more than a motley collections of armed trawlers and whalers. A keen observer with an eye for the abserd, this story is shot through with the good shipmate's sense of decency and humour that sustained him through the ordeals of convoy duty in the Arctic Ocean and the dark years of the war.