'A gripping story, told with eloquence and empathy, displaying again the filmic quality which makes Brian W. Lavery's writing so special.' - Alan Johnson, award-winning author of This Boy 'Brian W Lavery brings a journalist's eye for detail to a superbly realised tale of courage, loss and exceptional bravery. This is an important book, powerful, heart-breaking and triumphant.' - David Mark, internationally acclaimed crime writer, Cruel Mercy, Dark Winter, The Zealots Bones 'With the novelist's eye for drama and the historian's eye for detail, no one writes Hull's recent history like Brian Lavery.' - Nick Quantrill, Hull-based crime writer, arts commentator, critic and sports journalist 'Another epic story from Brian W. Lavery - very well told, with some beautifully crafted detail. You really feel like you're there on that sinking, blazing ship -and you can't get off!' - Steve Humphries, documentary filmmaker and historian, Testimony Films, Bristol, UK 'Brian's book is both sad and happy for me - a tribute to the young man I loved and the men he sailed with - a tragedy recalled - but a love story too.

I was glad he told our story' - Jill Long-Taylor-Harrison - widowed as teenaged pregnant young mum by the St Finbarr disaster. 'Brian W Lavery is the fishermen's clarion' - Retired skipper Ray Hawker, a technical adviser to the author.