David Armine Howarth


David Armine Howarth was a British naval officer, boatbuilder, historian and author

Biography

After graduating from the University of Cambridge, he became a war correspondent for BBC radio at the start of World War II. Howarth joined the Navy after the fall of France. He served in the Special Operations Executive and helped set up the Shetland Bus, an SOE operation manned by Norwegians running a clandestine route between Shetland and Norway. He was second in command at the Naval base in Shetland. For his contributions to espionage operations against the German occupation of Norway, he received King Haakon VII's Cross of Liberty. The King also made Howarth a Chevalier First Class of the Order of St Olav.
After the war, he wrote several books on naval and military history, including a memoir of the Shetland Bus. He also edited My Land and My People, the first autobiography by the 14th Dalai Lama, which was published in 1962.
Howarth died on 2 July 1991 at the age of 78. 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.

Novels

;Autobiographies:
;Biographies:
A comprehensive biography of Britain's most famous Admiral.
;History:
An account of the landing in Normandy, with many observations from participants.
Analysis of the Battle of Waterloo, from the reports of those who fought it.
Account of the Battle of Trafalgar, between the navies of France and Great Britain in 1805.
The story of British sea power.
Narrative describing the Greek War of Independence in the 1820s.
A historical narrative of the personalities and events of 1066 AD and how they changed Britain.
A look at the development and use of battleship technology in the First World War.
Sailing war-ships from the 16th to 18th centuries.
An account of the Spanish Armada of 1588, seen mostly from the Spanish perspective. Much of the account references newly-available Spanish material.
The decline of Tahiti, from its discovery by H.M.S. Dolphin in June 1767
;True events: