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Old 24-10-2005, 10:23 PM
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Can anyone please tell me the name of the real doctor who was aboard the ship depicted in the film & played by Andrew Cruickshank ...... Thanks

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The story was fictional, there was no real HMS Compass Rose.
Or do you mean the doctor on HMS Kelly, Mountbatten's ship, that the story was loosely based on?

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The story was fictional, there was no real HMS Compass Rose.
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The Cruel Sea was based on Monsarrat's wartime experiences with corvettes. In Which We Serve was based on Mountbatten and HMS Kelly.
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The Cruel Sea was based on Monsarrat's wartime experiences with corvettes. In Which We Serve was based on Mountbatten and HMS Kelly.
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Oops! You're quite right of course.
But either way, it was fictional [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

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If it's of any assistance, Nicholas Monteserrat mirrored some of his own wartime experiences aboard HMS Campanula (K18) and used them in the narrative story of The Cruel Sea.
HMS Campanula, unlike the HMS Compass Rose (K32), survived the war being scrapped in 1947. Possibly the doctor was based upon the doctor-surgeon serving on HMS Campanula.
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