| Entry Text: | JONES, David & NUNAN, Peter. Master Mariner: The Story of Captain Harold Chesterman. xi, 237p., bibliog.., illus., index. Rockhampton, Qld.: Central Queensland University Press, 2009. ISBN: 1921274123.
An Australian, he trained at the Thames Nautical Training College on Worcester at Greenhithe in Kent, where he joined the RNR. He joined the RN in 1939. He then moved up through roles as executive officer on armed trawlers, then corvettes, a sinking, and by mid-1942 was commanding Snowflake. At 25 he was the youngest captain of a major warship in the Royal Navy. By age 29 he commanded a destroyer. Then it was back to the Merchant Navy. He joined Australia's Commonwealth Lighthouse Service whose vessels he commanded for the rest of his eventful career. |
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