{"id":291,"date":"2020-11-17T08:54:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T08:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theveteranshub.co.uk\/?post_type=product&#038;p=291"},"modified":"2024-09-09T14:41:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T14:41:39","slug":"the-mighty-quinn","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.theveteranshub.co.uk\/index.php\/product\/the-mighty-quinn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mighty Quinn"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mighty Quinn, HMS Eskimo 1963 \u2013 1980 is a biography of a ship &amp; the\u00a0men that served on her. Our story starts in the late 1950\u2019s when the (MOD) Ministry\u00a0of Defence decided they needed a general purpose, go anywhere, Gunboat type<br \/>\nFrigate that could operate in all kinds of conditions. Seven, Type 81, general purpose,\u00a0Tribal Class Frigates were to be built.<\/p>\n<p>Built on the Isle of Wight by J S White at Cowes, HMS Eskimo was launched\u00a0in March, 1961. It would 2 more years before she was commissioned &amp; put into\u00a0active service in 1963. The Eskimo would remain in active service for 17 years,<br \/>\nduring which time she was deployed all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>This fully illustrated book takes the reader through the life &amp; times of Royal\u00a0Navy Frigate &amp; her ship\u2019s Company. It contains a fully factual account of the\u00a0Eskimo\u2019s deployments, intermixed with \u2018Dits\u2019 (real life stories) recounted by former<br \/>\ncrewmen.<\/p>\n<p>Robert M Saunders \u2013 Author<br \/>\nHMS Eskimo\u00a01969 \u2013 1970 &amp; 1973 \u2013 1975<br \/>\nRobert Saunders the author served with CPO Steve Williams on the\u00a0Eskimo.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>All proceeds from the sale of this book will go to The Veterans Hub\u00a0Weymouth &amp; Portland CIC<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nBook cost is \u00a331 including P+P if in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":292,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[20],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-291","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"virtual","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theveteranshub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theveteranshub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theveteranshub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theveteranshub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theveteranshub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theveteranshub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theveteranshub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theveteranshub.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}