A Prayer for the Ship Author:Douglas Reeman During World War II Britain's Royal Navy was called upon to perform countless deeds which, looked back upon from the distance of a quarter century, seem like small miracles. One of the most hard-pressed branches of the Navy was that knon impressively as the Light Coastal Forces - actually a motley fleet consisting of motor torpedo boats and gunb... more »oats crewed by men who a brief time before had been England's amateur sailors. Now they nightly carried the war to the enemy in his own territory in a dangerous campaign fught against overwhelming odds and a prepared and merciless foe.