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  • The Wreck of the Mary Deare

  • By: Hammond Innes
  • Narrated by: Bill Wallis
  • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (152 ratings)

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The Wreck of the Mary Deare

By: Hammond Innes
Narrated by: Bill Wallis
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Summary

They dismissed the Mary Deare as ‘a piece of leaking ironmongery taken off the junk heap’. For 40 years this 6,000-ton freighter had tramped the seas, suffered shipwreck twice, and been torpedoed three times in two world wars. Then one March night, battered and bruised and empty, she emerged from severe Biscay gales into the English Channel - and into the newspaper headlines. Here was a ship of mystery and tragedy... in one of the greatest sea stories of all time.

©1956 Hammond Innes (P)2010 BBC Audiobooks Ltd
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First Hammond Innes Novel

Really enjoyable, wanted to keep on listening full of suspense and mystery.
Narrator was really good made for easy listening.

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Age shall not weary them.....

I thought this would seem a bit dated, but I was so wrong! Hammond Innes is a master storyteller.

Bill Wallis reads beautifully- he really took me to those places.

Thoroughly recommended.

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An enthralling yarn, brilliantly narrated!

I enjoyed this audio book very much and thoroughly recommend it. The narrator was excellent.

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.highly recommended,

I read this book over fifty years ago, was highly impressed then, and decided to try my recently acquired Audible version. It goes without saying that the writing and the story are first class, matched by the narration by Bill Wallace which simply complemented the whole.
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All in all, highly recommended.




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Interesting story

I had previously read this book and enjoyed it. Having it read to me by Bill Wallis was an experience. Bill is an excellent reader.

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Cracking sea yarn

Wrecking ,storms, baddies, possible baddies. devious schemes -all bought together in a story i barely remember from seeing the Hollywood film years ago.

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Excellent

Great Yarn and very well read. Revisited this book after 50years and was not disappointed.

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Surprsingly Good

Chose this because of the narrator, was very pleasantly surprised very well written beautifully narrated a gripping thriller with many twists and turns perhaps too much nautical detail but I really did enjoy it.

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A superb listen

Or so my husband says. Good story and plot. Worth a credit :) well read by the narrator.

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Excellent narration - well done Wallis!

Being a bit of a connoisseur of Audible books I have to say Bill Wallis' narration is excellent. Absolutely spot on for the archetypal British dramas of Hammond Innes. Beautifully paced, inflections where needed and not over ambitious with accents. Well done Wallis!

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