Almost HMNZS Neptune

"HMS Neptune was to have been New Zealand's fourth cruiser of World War Two. But fifty years ago, diverted to the Mediterranean Fleet before going on to New Zealand, she met a violent end in a minefield off Tripoli. Neptune went down with only one survivor from her over 750 man crew. Almost HMNZS Neptune tells the life story of the ship and her crew from its first peacetime commission through to the end on a stormy December night in 1941. Neptune's pre-war service included the South Atlantic Station and South Africa, various Home Fleet cruises to ports in the Baltic, Mediterranean Sea and the Caribbean and the official fleet representative at the Berlin Olympics."--Provided by the publisher.