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The film was released in the United States as Sailor of the King. It was filmed at Shepperton Studios near London and on location in the Mediterranean around Malta . The film's sets were designed by the art director Alex Vetchinsky An earlier 1935 film Forever England was based on the same novel and starred John Mills under Walter Forde 's ...
HMS Manxman (M70) was an Abdiel-class minelayer of the Royal Navy. The ship is named for an inhabitant of the Isle of Man . It served in the Mediterranean during World War II , and entered the Reserve Fleet following the end of the war.
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The novel was also later adapted as Sailor of the King (also titled Single-Handed in the US, and sometimes – though rarely – Brown on Resolution), in 1953. The 1935 version retains the novel's original World War I setting, but in the 1953 remake, the setting is realistically updated to the Second World War, as the Germans resumed commerce ...
M. HSC Manannan; TSS Manx Maid (1910) TSS Manx Maid (1962) MV Manx Viking; TSS Manxman (1904) TSS Manxman (1955) MV Manxman; SS Mona (1832) SS Mona (1878) SS Mona (1889)
HMS Manxman (1916) was a ferry launched in 1903 and requisitioned by the Royal Navy in 1915 for conversion to a sea plane carrier. Returned to civilian service in 1920, the ship was requisitioned as a radar training vessel, HMS Caduceus , during World War II and scrapped in 1945.
TSS Manxman was a turbine steamship launched in 1904 for the Midland Railway and operated between Heysham and Douglas, Isle of Man. In 1916, she was commissioned by the Royal Navy as HMS Manxman and saw action as a seaplane carrier during the First World War , after which she was acquired by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company .