Title: The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Content:  The Wreck of the Mary Deare (in the UK published as The Mary Deare) is a 1956 novel written by British author Hammond Innes, which was later adapted as a film starring Gary Cooper released in 1959 by MGM. According to Jack Adrian, the book "a stroke launched him into that rarefied empyrean most writers yearn for though few attain, supersellerdom." It tells the story of a very old ship described as "a deathtrap of rattling rivets", which is found adrift at sea by salvager John Sands. Sands boards it hoping to claim it for salvage, but finds the first officer, 
Title: The Wreck of the Mary Deare (film)
Content:  but it goes badly for him: the lawyer for the owners presents Higgins' story as the credible record of events, and Patch's credibility is damaged when he has to admit that he accidentally killed Captain Taggart while trying to control him in a fit of delirium. The judges do not allow Patch to read his version of events into the record. The lawyer then announces that the Mary Deare has been found by a survey from the air, and a French salvage crew is now working to refloat it and take it to shore. Janet, who suspects the owner's party, tells Patch that 
Title: The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Content:  Patch, still aboard and trying to run the ship on his own. Patch convinces Sands to help him beach the ship, even though it will void his salvage claim. When they return to London, Patch is brought before a board of inquiry to determine what happened. It soon becomes apparent that the shipowners were planning to wreck the Mary Deare all along and have Patch as the fall guy. The success of the book - and the 1959 film based on it starring Gary Cooper - enabled Innis to buy his own 42ft ocean racer, which he named Mary Deare.
Title: The Wreck of the Mary Deare (film)
Content:  The Wreck of the Mary Deare is a 1959 Metrocolor (in CinemaScope) British-American thriller film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Gary Cooper and Charlton Heston, and featuring Michael Redgrave, Cecil Parker, Richard Harris and John Le Mesurier. The screenplay by Eric Ambler was based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Hammond Innes.
Title: The Wreck of the Mary Deare (film)
Content:  The steamship Mary Deare, out of Hong Kong, is found adrift at sea in a storm in the English Channel by salvager John Sands. Sands boards it hoping to claim it for salvage, but finds Gideon Patch, former first officer who has been captain for four days since the death of Taggart, the previous captain, still aboard and trying to run the ship on his own. Patch gives Sands mysterious hints about two fires, a dynamite incident and having been hit on the head and left on the ship when the crew abandoned it four days before. He refuses to let the ship be 
Title: The Wreck of the Mary Deare (film)
Content:  are claiming that Patch gave an unnecessary order to abandon ship. A boat containing the officers who were not allies of Higgins was lost, and they are claiming Patch was responsible for the deaths of those men. The owner of the ship, the insurance company and the salvage company put pressure on Patch and Sands, who remains Patch's ally, but Patch insists on a board of inquiry. He visits Captain Taggart's daughter Janet, who lets him borrow a page of a letter from her father that mentions being anchored for days beside another ship in the harbour at Rangoon. Patch's story gradually emerges: 
Title: The Wreck of the Mary Deare (film)
Content: Gary Cooper as Gideon Patch ; Charlton Heston as John Sands ; Michael Redgrave as Mr Nyland ; Emlyn Williams as Sir Wilfred Falcett ; Cecil Parker as The Chairman ; Alexander Knox as Petrie ; Virginia McKenna as Janet Taggart ; Richard Harris as Higgins ; Ben Wright as Mike ; Peter Illing as Gunderson ; Terence De Marney as Frank ; Charles Davis as Yules, Quartermaster on Mary Deare ; Ashley Cowan as Burrows 
Title: The Wreck of the Mary Deare (film)
Content:  for salvage, and insists on running it onto rocks in the dangerous region of the Minquiers, so that it will stay above water until an official inspection by a board of inquiry in England. Sands tries to get back to his own ship, the Sea Witch, and cannot because of the storm; Patch saves his life by pulling him back onto the Mary Deare. Sands reluctantly joins him in running the ship, with much effort in the flooded engine room, onto a reef in the Minquiers. When the two reach land, Sands learns that the survivors among the crew, led by second officer 
Title: The Wreck of the Mary Deare (film)
Content:  will be on board when the ship floats, and Patch realizes that in its weakened condition it will be easy for one man to sink it in deep water, so that it will never be known that the engines are missing. Patch steals Sands' salvage boat to get to the Mary Deare and prevent this; Sands, after catching him fueling the boat, joins him. They don diving suits and get into the ship underwater through the dynamite hole, and they indeed find that the engine boxes are filled with rocks and not engines. Higgins has seen Patch's and Sands' underwater lights as they 
Title: Receiver of Wreck
Content: The Receiver of Wreck was mentioned by Hammond Innes in the novel (and film based on the novel) The Wreck of the Mary Deare. ; Show of Hands, an English folk band, sing about the Receiver of Wreck in the song "The Napoli". This was inspired by the wreck of the MSC Napoli, which was grounded in Branscombe Bay and subsequently lost many containers which were washed up on the beach, before being rifled through by people flocking to the small village. 

Question: Who is the author of The Wreck of the Mary Deare?
Answer: Hammond Innes.
Ralph Hammond Innes.
Ralph Hammond.