Hammond Innes (July 15, 1914 – June 10, 1998) was an English author who wrote over thirty novels, as well as children's and travel books. July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining. ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ...

Ralph Hammond Innes was born in Horsham, Sussex. Educated at Cranbrook School in Kent, he left in 1931 to work as a journalist, initially with the Financial Times (at the time called the Financial News). The Doppelganger, his first novel, was published in 1937. In WWII he served in the Royal Artillery, eventually rising to the rank of Major. During the war, a number of his books were published, including Wreckers Must Breathe (1940), The Trojan Horse (1941) and Attack Alarm (1941). After being demobbed, in 1946 he worked full-time as a writer, achieving a number of early successes. Map sources for Horsham at grid reference TQ3324 Horsham is a market town and district in West Sussex, England. ... Sussex as a traditional county. ... Cranbrook Kingswood is a private, K-12 school located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. ... Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Financial Times building The Financial Times (FT) is an international business newspaper printed on distinctive salmon pink broadsheet paper. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... The Royal Regiment of Artillery, generally known as the Royal Artillery (RA), is, despite its name, a corps of the British Army It is made up of a number of regiments. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

Innes went on to produce books in a regular sequence of six months of travel and research and then six months of writing, with many of these works featuring the sea. His rate of work was reduced from the 1960s, but was still substantial, and he became interested in ecological themes. He continued writing until just before his death. His last novel was Delta Connection (1996). Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...

Four of his earlier novels were made into films: Snowbound (1948) from The Lonely Skier (1947), Hell Below Zero (1954) from The White South (1949), Campbell's Kingdom (1957) from the book of the same name (1952) and The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959) also from the book of the same name (1956). 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Novels

• The wiktionary:Doppelganger (1937)
• Air Disaster (1937)
• Sabotage Broadcast (1938)
• All Roads Lead to Friday (1939)
• Wreckers Must Breathe (1940)
• The Trojan Horse (1940)
• Attack Alarm (1941)
• Dead and Alive (1946)
• Killer Mine (1947)
• The Lonely Skier (1947)
• The Blue Ice (1948)
• Maddon’s Rock (1948)
• The White South (1949)
• The Angry Mountain (1950)
• Air Bridge (1951)
• Campbell’s Kingdom (1952)
• The Strange Land (1954)
• The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1956)
• The Land God Gave to Cain (1958)
• The Doomed Oasis (1960)
• Atlantic Fury (1962)
• The Strode Venturer (1965)
• Levkas Man (1971)
• Golden Soak (1973)
• North Star (1975)
• The Big Footprints (1977)
• Solomons Seal (1980)
• The Black Tide (1982)
• High Stand (1985)
• Medusa (1988)
• Isvik (1991)
• Target Antarctica (1993)
• Delta Connection (1996)

• The Last Voyage: Captain Cook’s Lost Diary (fictional diary) (1978)

• Some non-fiction and children's literature

External links

• Hammond Innes profile from kirjasto.sci.fi (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hinnes.htm)
• Book covers from fantasticfiction (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Hammond_Innes.htm)
• Hammond Innes profile from ASTO (Association of Sea Training Organisations) (http://www.asto.org.uk/rhibio.htm)