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    Lieutenant Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FRSL RNVR (/ˈmɒnsəræt/ 22 March 1910 – 8 August 1979) was a British novelist known for his sea stories...
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  • Charles Nicholas Monsarrat (July 2, 1871 – March 1, 1940) was a Canadian-born bridge designer. He was born in Montreal and was educated by private tuition...
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    the idiom to frame the events in Episode 9 of Ullysses (1922). In Nicholas Monsarrat's 1951 war novel The Cruel Sea, upper-class junior officer Morell is...
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    frigates in H M Frigate (1946) and the novel The Cruel Sea (1951) by Nicholas Monsarrat. In the 1953 film version HMS Saltash was depicted by Castle-class...
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  • The screenplay by Charles Kaufman was based on the 1952 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures. With her marriage to womaniser...
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  • best-selling 1951 novel of the same name by former naval officer Nicholas Monsarrat, though the screenplay by Eric Ambler omits some of the novel's grimmest...
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  • 3rd century BCE Ariadne – yacht in I Was There, a short story by Nicholas Monsarrat in The Ship That Died of Shame and Other Stories, 1959 Around the...
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    for Gowind ships". Defense News. The collection Three Corvettes by Nicholas Monsarrat recounts the writer's World War II experiences on corvettes, starting...
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  • written and directed by Alastair Reid, based on a 1963 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. The film stars Peter Finch, Shelley Winters, Colin Blakely, Linda...
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  • shoe", "three" with "my knee", "four" with "my door", and so on. Nicholas Monsarrat (1910–1979), in his autobiography Life Is a Four Letter Word, refers...
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