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Title: Dick, the Dagger
Author: Tony Farnham

Price: £9.95 + p&p

Details: Captain Henry 'Dick, the Dagger' Miller BEM went to sea in Thames Sailing Barges as a boy of thirteen in Victorian England. Arriving at London, he was told by his skipper to go into Whitechapel to buy supplies for their barge, but was too frightened to go, for this was the time of the 'Jack the Ripper' murders.

'Dick, the Dagger' carried cement from Greenhithe for the building of the buttresses of Tower Bridge: took pitch to Antwerp and coal to France during the Great War, sailing through several minefields in doing so: lost one vessel at Dunkirk in 1940, but helped bring another one back, laden with soldiers, for which gallantry he was awarded the British Empire Medal.

Captain Miller retired from the sea aged seventy and served another ten years as gate-keeper for ship and barge owner F T Everard & Sons Limited at Greenhithe before retiring for the second time in order to let one of the 'youngsters', a sixty-five year old, take over his job.

At the age of 100 'Dick, the Dagger' was interviewed at his Dartford home by Tony Farnham, now Chairman of The Society for Sailing Barge Research. This is a transcript of the recorded interview, with recently released reports of vessels involved in the Dunkirk evacuation.

Specification:
Size 297 x 210mm (A4), 78 pages, 62 period photographs, perfect bound with laminated card covers.

ISBN 0-9532422-6-9