By Mark Ryan
The exploits of Tommy Sneum, the Danish-born undercover agent who died in 2007, made him a legend in espionage circles. yet earlier, the whole remarkable tale of Sneum’s action-packed occupation as a British-run undercover agent hasn't ever been told.
Based on enormous quantities of hours of interviews with Sneum, Mark Ryan describes how Tommy made a major break out from Denmark in a battered previous Hornet Moth airplane - which he needed to refuel in mid-air by means of mountaineering out at the wing. Later, he escaped from Denmark back - by way of jogging throughout a treacherous frozen sea on which of his partners died. Tommy introduced over priceless intelligence concerning the Nazi radar installations in Denmark and their atom bomb - his gift was once to be imprisoned in Brixton as a suspected double agent and threatened with execution.
He cheated the hangman - however it is barely with the e-book of this captivating booklet that Sneum will be celebrated as, within the phrases of Professor R.V. Jones, Churchill’s leader of medical intelligence, ‘one of the real heroes of worldwide battle II’. 12 black-and-white pictures
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These ships were simply not designed to engage in a long-range gunnery duel. Instead, guns were designed to fire a massed broadside immediately prior to coming alongside an enemy, and then soldiers and sailors would fight a boarding action. In 1545 the Mary Rose was typical of the other major warships in the Navy Royal, carrying almost as many soldiers as it did sailors (185 soldiers to 200 mariners and 20 gunners). These troops were armed with ranged weapons (mainly longbows, augmented by a few handguns) and melee weapons (pikes and bills), while everyone on board, sailors or soldiers, would have some form of knife or dagger, if not a sword or axe.
Then a series of wrought-iron rings of varying thicknesses and widths were heat-shrunk around the staves, thus forming a tube capable of withstanding the pressure of a gunpowder explosion. (Drawing by author) ~~~ ~~~ ~~ [. =:.. ~ 35 Major additions to Henry VIII's Navy Royal, 1509-47 Date Vessel Type Tonnage Notes Service ended 1509 (B) Mary Rose Ship 500 tons Rebuilt 1536 (as 700-ton vessel). 60 guns 1545 1510 (B) Peter Pomegranate Ship 450 tons Renamed Peter, 1536 60 guns Ship 300 tons 1512 (P) Christ 1512 (P) Maria de Larreto Carrack 800 tons Captured from Genoese Returned to Genoa, 1514 1512 (P) Katherine Fortune Carrack 550 tons Sometimes known as Katherine Fortileza.
Despite its simplicity the artist has attempted to show the substantial heavy ordnance carried by the Regent on her gundeck. (Stratford Archive) the largest warship in the Tudor fleet. The boarders drove the Frenchmen from the upper deck, but then on the verge of victory came disaster. A fire broke out on the French ship and within minutes the Cordeliere was ablaze. The rigging of the Regent and the Cordeliere had also become entwined, and the English ship was unable to free herself. Inevitably the fire spread, and soon both ships were consumed by the flames.