Douglas Reeman, Killing Ground, 1991
United Kingdom
HMS Seeker
Escort Carrier, class not specified
No other details provided.
HMS Belleisle
B Class Destroyer
Details as per the real ships.
Note: Class assignment based on name only.
HMS Blackwall
B Class Destroyer
Details as per the real ships.
Has been equipped with a Squid mortar.
Note: Class assignment based on name only.
HMS Gladiator (H38)
G Class Destroyer
Details as per the real ships.
Built: 1936
Ships Crest: "An uplifted stabbing sword gripped by an armoured fist". Motto: Manu Forti
Note: Author explicitly identifies the ship as being of the interwar G Class. Pennant clashes with that of D Class Destroyer HMS Delight.
HMS Ganymede
G Class Destroyer
Details as per the real ships.
Note: Author explicitly identifies the ship as being of the interwar G Class.
HMS Garnet
G Class Destroyer
Details as per the real ships.
Note: Author explicitly identifies the ship as being of the interwar G Class. Stated to be undergoing a Long Range Escort conversion similar to that carried out on the V & W Class Destroyers in 1944.
HMS Hector
H Class Destroyer
Details as per the real ships.
Note: Class assignment based on name only.
HMS Kinsale
K Class Destroyer
Details as per the real ships.
Note: Author explicitly identifies the ship as being of the interwar K Class. A destroyer of the same name (possibly the same ship.) appears in the authors 2008 novel, 'The Glory Boys'.
HMS Lithgow
L Class Destroyer
Details as per the real ships.
Note: Class assignment based on name only.
HMS Mediator
M Class Destroyer
Details as per the real ships.
Note: Class assignment based on name only.
HMS Winsby
V & W Class Destroyer
Details as per the real ships.
Note: Author explicitly identifies the ship as being of the V & W Class.
HMS Cynara
Flower Class Corvette
Details as per the real ships.
Note: Author explicitly identifies the ship as being a Flower Class Corvette.
HMS Malva
Flower Class Corvette
Details as per the real ships.
Note: Author explicitly identifies the ship as being a Flower Class Corvette.
HMS Physalis
Flower Class Corvette
Details as per the real ships.
Note: Author explicitly identifies the ship as being a Flower Class Corvette.
HMS Tacitcus
Flower Class Corvette
Details as per the real ships.
Note: Author explicitly identifies the ship as being a Flower Class Corvette.
HMS Sanderling
Kingfisher Class Sloop?
Details as per the real ships.
Sunk: 1942
Note: Class assignment based on name only.
HMS Redwing
Kingfisher Class Sloop?
Details as per the real ships.
Note: Class assignment based on name only.
HMS Tromp II
Armed Merchant Cruiser (AA ship)
Former Dutch ferry boat.
No other details provided.
RFA Black Watch
'Fleet Tanker'
No other details provided.
HMRT Bruiser
Tugboat
No other details provided.
Note: Name clashes with that of a Landing Ship Tank launched in October of 1942.
HMRT Tiberius
Salvage Tug
No other details provided.
Canada
HMCS Beothuck
Tribal Class Destroyer
Details as per the real ships
Note: Author explicitly identifies the ship as being a Tribal Class Destroyer.
Germany
Various Unnamed Warships
Plot summary: The Battle of the Atlantic (1942 - 1944 (The story ends shortly after the D-Day landings.)) from the point of view of the crew of a British G Class Destroyer.
Note: The attached cover is that of the 2022 eBook edition, whoever made this cover appears to be making use of photographs of models, rather than CGI. The ships depicted also appear to be post-WWII Russian vessels rather than models of WWII era ships.
