The unforgiving minute.

The autobiography of Rear-Admiral Sir Morgan Morgan-Giles (1914-2013), primarily written for his family. Joining the China fleet as a midshipman in 1932, his wartime duties included operations in Norway, the Mediteranean, Suez, Tobruk and Yugoslavia as well as serving with the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm, and finally in the Far East. After the war Morgan-Giles continued to serve in the Royal Navy, in 1961 taking command of HMS Belfast, then flagship of the Far East Fleet. Promoted to Rear-Admiral in 1963, he became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Leaving the Royal Navy in 1964, Morgan-Giles become Member of Parliament for Winchester, retiring in 1979. In 1971 he successful saved HMS Belfast from scrapping by campaigning to transform the ship into a museum. Appendices include family obituaries and details of the boats owned by Morgan-Giles for pleasure.