Nicholas Monsarrat

“The Cruel Sea (1953 film)”

“Ericson was a big man, broad and tough: a man to depend on, a man to remember: about forty-two or -three, fair hair going grey, blue eyes as level as a foot rule, with wrinkles at the corners — the product of humour and of twenty years' staring at a thousand horizons.”

“It was a marvellous morning, clear as a mirror, warm as the promise of love, bright as heaven.”