Pincher Martin charts". ("A single point of rock, peak of a mountain range, one tooth set in the ancient jaw of a sunken world, projecting through the inconceivable vastness of the whole ocean.") It is due to these descriptions that a number of critics and reviewers proposed that the setting provided is that of Rockall, which seems to fit the definitions given. Pincher Martin Pincher Martin (published in America as Pincher Martin: The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin), is a novel by British writer William Golding, first published in 1956. It is Golding's third novel, following "The Inheritors" and his debut "Lord
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