HMS Royalist was a Bellona-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy and Royal New Zealand Navy during the Second World War and early Cold War.
Royalist anchored at Greenock, Scotland, in September 1943
Royalist and a Supermarine Seafire off Alexandria, 1945
HMNZS Royalist during the Suez Crisis
HMNZS Royalist at Devonport Naval Base, 1956
Alistair Stuart MacLean was a Scottish novelist, who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. His books are estimated to have sold over 150 million copies, making him one of the best-selling fic
HMS Royalist (89)
…and the Andaman Islands. For the remainder of the war, she supported carrier raids against targets in the East Indies and Sumatra. Scottish author Alistair MacLean served on Royalist during the war, and used his experiences as background for his acclaimed first novel HMS Ulysses (1955) as well as for some of his…
A collection of MacLean's fiction works from 1955 to 1971, published by Heron Books (London) in the mid-1970s