STEVE R DUNN is an author with a special interest in the Royal Navy of the late nineteenth century and the First World War. He has written biographies and narrative histories including _Blockade, Securing the Narrow Sea_, _Bayly's War_, _Southern Thunder_, _The Battle of the Baltic_, _The Power and the Glory_, _British Naval Trawlers and Drifters in Two World Wars_ and most recently _The Harwich Striking Force_, all published by Seaforth. Steve lives in Worcestershire.