There is another Ron Baxter song: the Lord Middleton. Sung by the Taverners on their Windmills LP many years ago, concerning seeing the Lord Middleton being broken up in Fleetwood docks. The Lord Middleton was a trawler used as a rescue ship on the Russian convoys, including (IIRC) PQ 17. There is a niggle that it might have been PQ18, and maybe the song was written by Alan Bell with inspiration from Ron - I'll check on the LP tonight. Any way round, it is relevant to this thread though not an actual wartime song.
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