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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Royal Navy submarine commanders, Sandy Woodward, Bill King, William Guy Carr, Gavin Menzies, Jimmy Launders, Edward Preston Young, James Joseph Magennis, Geoffrey Layton, Ian Edward Fraser, Ian McGeoch, Jack Broome, Rupert Lonsdale, Arthur Hezlet, John Harvey-Jones, Max Kennedy Horton, David Wanklyn, Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce, Norman Douglas Holbrook, Martin Dunbar-Nasmith, Basil Charles Godfrey Place, Anthony Miers, Alastair Mars, Neil Rutherford, Lionel Davidson, Gordon Tait, Mark Stanhope, John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse, James Burnell-Nugent, Lynch Maydon, Geoffrey Saxton White, David Luce, Gilbert Hackforth-Jones, Trevor Soar, Edward Courtney Boyle, Hugh Marrack, Henry Hugh Gordon Stoker, Peter Scawen Watkinson Roberts, Peter Goodwin, Richard Douglas Sandford, Peter Wilkinson, Thomas William Gould, Sir Edward Archdale, 3rd Baronet, Iwan Raikes, Francis Cromie, David Russell, Antony Duff, John Gaimes, Guy D'Oyly-Hughes, Sir Thomas Barlow, 3rd Baronet. Excerpt: Commander William Donald Aelian "Bill" King, DSO & Bar, DSC (born 23 June 1910), is a retired British naval officer, yachtsman and author. He was the oldest participant in the first solo non-stop around the world yacht race, the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, and is the oldest surviving World War II submarine commander. Brought up by his mother and grandmother, King went to the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. He was first assigned to HMS Resolution, and later became Commanding Officer of HMS Snapper. He served on three separate vessels in World War II, and was promoted to Commander and awarded seven medals during the war. King not only survived World War II, but succeeded in a singlehanded circumnavigation in 1973 on his third attempt. During the latter journey, he managed to reach port despite a collision with a large sea creature 400 miles (640 km)...
