Hammond Innes was born on July 15, 1913 in Horsham, Sussex, England as Ralph Hammond Innes. He was a writer, known for Gefährliches Erbe (1957), Snowbound (1948) and Die den Tod nicht fürchten (1959). He was married to Dorothy Mary Lang. He died on June 10, 1998 in Suffolk, England.
He was awarded a CBE (Commander, Order of the British Empire) in 1978. The American magazine "Holiday" paid Innes to visit and write about both the Russian frontier of Norway and The Pirate Coast (today the United Arab Emirates). Innes and his wife visited Morocco in 1951-1952, to research his 1954 novel "The Naked Land". English author and world traveler born in Horsham, Sussex, the neighborhood where Percy Bysshe Shelley was also born. Journalist at the Financial Times (1934-1940), then served with the Royal Artillery during World War II, during which he began writing adventure novels. His novels, which take place in many locations around the world and which deal with such topics as spies and intrigue, black markets, counterfeiters, liquor-running, skiing, whaling, exploring, and shipwreck, were popular among readers and reviewers. His filmed novel "The Wreck of the Mary Deare" was inspired by Innes experiencing a near shipwreck off the English Channel. He subsequently named his own ocean-going racing boat "Mary Deare". Also known as Ralph Hammond, Ralph Hammond Innes.
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In the English Channel John Sands, captain of a small rescue ship, finds the freighter Mary Deare drifting. Although there's only a little fire, the whole crew seems to have left the ship. John's already looking forward to a large salvage fee, but then he finds first officer Gerald Patch still on board, who sends him away. Although he doesn't understand yet what happened on the Mary Deere, Sands allows Patch to persuade him not to talk about what he saw on board and to drag out the official investigation of the incident.
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