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In the cramped wardroom of Admiral Horatio Nelson's 187-year-old flagship Victory last week, a court martial sat in judgment on another British naval hero whose duty was dogged by domestic complications. Lieut. Commander Alastair Campbell Gillespie Mars, 37, had neither the rank nor the romantic inclinations...
"If you go to sea under Mars," said one of his crew the day Mars got the D.S.O. at Buckingham Palace, "you know you're all right." After the war Mars himself was less confident. In peacetime, he soon found, shoal waters and depth charges are not the only...
Commander Mars tried to solve the problem by asking for shore duty in England. The Admiralty sent him instead to New Zealand. With no married quarters available, Mars settled his family on an abandoned riverboat which he rented for half his pay. An extra living allowance was held up four...
By the time he recovered, Mars was so deeply in debt that he asked the Admiralty for leave. The request was turned down. When Mars was ordered to report for duty at Portsmouth Harbor, he sat down and wrote a letter to his superiors, refusing the command, requesting his retirement...
At a naval court martial, an accused officer's sword must lie before his judges to point the way to innocence or guilt at the trial's end. If the sword is presented hilt forward, he may pick it up and resume his duties. If the point is...