By the Editor: The author lays down a challenge for individual reflection on the famous names assigned to the new Inspiration-class (Type 31) general purpose frigates. Fig1. The approach to St Naz It was an action, where more VCs were won more quickly than any other battle in the Second World War. Lord Louis Mountbatten, when interviewed in 1974 recollecting the decision to mount the raid, said “the fact that it [was] regarded as impossible [made] it possible.” Of the 612 who undertook the raid over a quarter were killed, a third taken prisoner and less than half returned home. And what did it…
