![]() ![]() Monsarrat's last completed volume, the novel “Master Mariner: Running Proud,” which was published by Morrow last March, is about the British Navy from the 1500's to the 1800's. All told, it sold more than 11 million copies. ![]() Monsarrat's love of seafaring and the sea began in his boyhood in the great port of Liverpool and ran through his life and work he drew on his experiences in the British Navy in the North Atlantic during World War II in writing “The Cruel Sea,” which came out in 1951, soared on the best‐seller lists here together with Herman Wouk's war novel “The Caine Mutiny” and was a phenomenal success in England. ![]() He was 69 years old and lived on the Mediterranean island of Gozo, off Malta. Nicholas Monsarrat, the British amateur sailor turned author who wrote the best‐selling novel “The Cruel Sea” and two dozen other books, died of cancer Tuesday in a London hospital. ![]()
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