Entry Text: | MALCOLM, Ian M. Life Aboard a Wartime Liberty Ship. 250p., illus. Stroud: Amberley, 2010. ISBN: 144560020X.
From 1943 until 1951, Ian Malcolm was a radio officer/purser with Alfred Holt and Co., owners of the Blue Funnel Line and the Glen Line. The voyages on the Liberty Ships Samite and Samforth, described in the book, were made in wartime and followed by a year on the Samnesse: trading mainly between Italy and East Africa. Subsequent voyages were made to the Continent, Far East, Australia and Indonesia. |
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