Talk by Rear-Admiral Angus Nicholl
The first volume of the official history of The War at Sea by Captain S. W. Roskill , R.N., is prefaced by a quotation from a fifteenth-century poem:
'Kepe then the sea that is the wall of England:
And than is England kept by Goddes hande.'
Admiral Nicholl comments on this account of the conduct of the war at sea until the end of 1941 in the light of the traditional principles of our maritime strategy.