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Subject: Black Swann COMMANDER WILLIAM DONALD

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Steven Nicholls

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Date Posted: 07:44:52 04/08/04 Thu

COMMANDER WILLIAM DONALD, who has died aged 91, proved himself one the most successful small ship commanders during the Norwegian campaign in 1940, and then served at sea continuously throughout the rest of the Second World War.

When the Germans occupied Norway, Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered the recapture of Trondheim, which lies astride the north-south railway line. As second-in-command of the sloop Black Swann, Donald organised the overnight loading of marines and sailors in appalling weather; and it was his skill which ensured she did not capsize when she sailed overloaded with stores, ammunition and field guns lashed to her upperdeck.

For more on this story please go here:
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/05/10/db1001.xml

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