At his request, his ashes were scattered over the waters of Lunna Voe, Shetland, near Lunna House, the first base of the Shetland Bus operation. He wrote an account of the Shetland Bus operation, as well as many other books of history, bringing to his many of his books an immense practical knowledge of ships and the sea.ĭavid Howarth died in 1991. The King also made Howarth a Chevalier First Class of the Order of St Olav.Īfter the War he designed and built boats before turning to writing full time. For his contributions to espionage operations against the German occupation of Norway, he received King Haakon VII's Cross of Liberty. He was involved in the Special Operations Executive (SOE), including the Shetland Bus, an SOE operation manned by Norwegians running a clandestine route between Shetland and Norway, which utilized fishing boats with crews of Norwegian volunteers to land agents and arms in occupied Norway. He rose to the rank of lieutenant commander and spent four yeas in the Shetland Islands, becoming second in command of the Shetland Naval base. After graduating from Cambridge University, he was a radio war correspondent for BBC at the start of the Second World War, joining the Navy after the fall of France. David Armine Howarth (1912 - 1991) was a British historian and author.
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