the canadian war museum erected a memorial passageway plaque in his honour: "the name of this passageway honours the late captain thomas g. fuller, d.s.c.**, m.i.d., r.c.n.v.r., whose operational exploits on loan to the royal navy during the second world war, serving in and commanding flotillas of motor torpedo boats and gun boats, earned him great distinction as "the pirate of the adriatic". his "nelson-like" tactics of thwarting, sinking, boarding and capturing enemy shipping revolutionized coastal forces small boat warfare, insufficiently recognized as r.c.n.v.r. operations that deserve a better place in canadian military history. acknowledged by marshal tito as an "hon. commandant national army of liberation" for his strategic support of the partisans in liberation of yugoslavia, thomas george fuller is fondly