Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on November 26, 2004 at 20:02:39 from 217.137.106.87 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: Dauntless books, by Peter Dawlish posted by Doug Faunt on November 26, 2004 at 16:28:03:
My editions are Oxford University Press, and I think they are as originally published.
'Poplar Pirates' is beyond doubt 'Takes Recruits'
With hindsight 'Goes Home' is rather a sad ending to the series. Dauntless is handed back to her original French owners as a sailing smack, presumably around 1960. She is received joyously - but not long after that traditional French fishing boats were exterminated even more thouroughly than in England, where at least some survived.
Only 20 years later the French instituted the superb 'Bateaux des Cotes de France' programme, whereby many French communes built replicas of their traditional local boats. These were nearly all new. Hardly any originals had survived until then.
Dauntless would actually have had a far better chance of survival if the lads had kept her in England.