A prayer for the ship

"HMS Royston, Coastal Forces Depot Ship is mother ship to a battered, war-worn bunch of MTBs and MGBs. The commanding officer is Lieutenant Harston, aged 23. The crew are all young, some very young, but all old before their time."@en
"HMS Royston, Coastal Forces Depot Ship, is mother ship to a battered, war-warn bunch of MGBs. New on board is Sub-Lieutenant Royce: commissioned for three months, sea experience three months in an Asdic trawler, and aged twenty. ..."
"HMS Royston, Coastal Forces Depot Ship, is mother ship to a battered, war-torn bunch of MTBs and MGBs. New on board is Sub-Lieutenant Royce: commissioned for three months sea experience in an Asdic trawler, and aged twenty. His commanding officer is Lieutenant Harston, aged twenty three. His predecessor was killed in action forty-eight hours earlier and is now hardly remembered. The crew are all young - some very young - but all old before their time."
"HMS Royston, Coastal Forces Depot Ship, is mother ship to a battered, war-worn bunch of MTBs and MGBs. New on board is Sub-Lieutenant Royce: commissioned for three months, sea experience three months in an Asdic trawler, and aged twenty."
"Memories are short on the HMS Royston--they have to be. As mother ship to a battered, war-torn bunch of Motor Torpedo Boats, she must carry out her vital role whatever the conditions, whatever the risks. Sub-Lieutenant Royce must learn the job the hard way--in the tough school of combat."@en