\'I\'ll see the world, \' Jim McLoughlin told his parents as he set off to join the Royal Navy in 1939.
In One Common Enemy , he recounts how the chaos and carnage of war at sea in the Norwegian and Mediterranean campaigns led him to a fateful rendezvous with a much-loved ship from his boyhood, the passenger l.
He saw some of the world, but it wasn\'t fun. \'It\'ll be fun.\' Months later, this Liverpool lad was sailing to war aboard the massive battleship HMS Valiant . \'I\'ll see the world, \' Jim McLoughlin told his parents as he set off to join the Royal Navy in 1939