The Spire the Novels." "A most remarkable book, as unforeseeable as one foresaw, an entire original... remote from the mainstream, potent, severe, even forbidding." – Frank Kermode, New York Review of Books, 30 April 1964. The Spire The Spire is a 1964 novel by the English author William Golding. "A dark and powerful portrait of one man's will", it deals with the construction of the 404-foot high spire loosely based on Salisbury Cathedral; the vision of the fictional Dean Jocelin. In this novel, William Golding utilises stream of consciousness writing with an omniscient but increasingly fallible narrator. Jocelin, the Dean of the
HMS Pincher (1910) HMS Pincher (1910) HMS "Pincher" was a coal-fired destroyer of the Royal Navy built by William Denny and Brothers and launched on 15 March 1910. "Pincher" spent the early part of the First World War in a local defence flotilla operating out of Portsmouth, but by June 1915 had joined the 5th Destroyer Flotilla in the Aegean Sea, operating with them until December 1917. In January 1918, she was moved to the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla, operating for a half year with the Northern Division of the Coast of Ireland Station. On 15 May 1918, "Pincher" was reassigned to the 4th