| Entry Text: | HUMPHREYS, Lansdale. Merlin's Man: Love, War and Adventure in the Life of a Welsh Seafarer. 384p., bibliog., illus. Abergavenny: Heaton, 1995. ISBN: 187200606X.
Richard Humphreys was a 30-year-old Second Officer with Ellerman's in 1939. He survived three sinkings in three years and took part in one of the strange plots to blow up the Iron Gates. Put ashore as a Marine Superintendent in Liverpool, he managed a number of coastal trips and to teach navigation to the RAF in Wales. In late 1943 he joined a Sam ship in Baltimore and made several difficult voyages to the Mediterranean in support of the Anzio beachhead. In early 1945 he joined the Samdonard as Chief Officer where he served contentedly for six years. A loving reconstruction by his widow. |
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