Title: The red sailor
Description: Royal Navy Shipboard Fiction set during the Korean War period (but not actually in Korea.
A ship manned by the reprobates (lower Deck ratings only) out of Portsmouth Detention Quarters (Royal Naval Prison).
The anti-hero is a Royal Navy ex champion boxer who, because of his recent incarceration, refuses to represent the ship in Hong Kong to his detriment.
Subjects: Royal Naval discipline; malcontented
Places: Portsmout, UJ; Hong Kong
People: Varney (The Red Sailor)
Time periods: 1950's to 1960's (Korean War)