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| 2702 | JACKSON, Ian, with TODD, Ian, & ORMEROD, John. Three Boys in a Ship. [ix], 61p., illus. Melrose: [author], 1999. ISBN: 0953414612.
The three sailed as apprentices on Antilochus in 1943, bound for South America and recall their introduction to life afloat. |
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| 2703 | KAPLAN, Philip, & CURRIE, Jack. Convoy: Merchant Sailors at War 1939–1945. 224p., illus., index. London: Aurum, 1998. ISBN: 1854105515.
A heavily illustrated social history which tries to convey what it was like. |
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| 2704 | KETCHUM, Creston Donald. The Great Waters. 159p., illus. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1955; London: Hutchinson, 1956.
A Canadian pastor's missionary work at sea. The early chapters tell of his youth in the war years, when he served in a merchantman caught up in the Jervis Bay action then served for a brief spell in the RCN. US title: His Path Is in the Waters. |
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| 2705 | KING, Bernard Anson. Our Little Hour. [viii], 268p., illus. [n.p.], Stephen King, 2002. ISBN: 0954250907.
Biography and autobiography of a father and son who served largely with the Ellerman Line. During the war he was a captain and the son and author a cadet. The father very spasmodically kept a diary which reflects the pressures of war and convoy and is reproduced. Later in the war he served in the Pacific supply train. |
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| 2706 | KING, George. A Love of Ships. 294p., illus., index. Emsworth: Mason, 1991. ISBN: 0859373584.
An enchanting autobiography. He joined the Holt Line as a midshipman in 1941 and learnt his profession in an adventurous war, including being sunk by a U-boat. |
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| 2707 | KLITGAARD, Kaj. Oil and Deep Water. 182p., illus. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, [1945].
Description of life aboard a tanker and how it operates in a first person "factionalised" form. |
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| 2708 | LANE, Maxie. Sea-Running! [5], 136p. London: Macmillan, 1978. ISBN: 0333236513.
An autobiographical account of life at sea in the Black Gang of various tramps and tankers around the world. The war provides a rarely mentioned and only incidental backdrop to the highly scurrilous exploits of the author. Later issued in paperback as Running. |
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| 2709 | LANE, Tony. The Merchant Seamen's War. viii, 287p., bibliog., illus., index. Manchester: Manchester UP,1990. ISBN: 0719023971.
An attempt to demythologise the war at sea and to look at the dissent and conflict as well as the bravery and devotion. |
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| 2710 | LASKIER, Frank. A Merchant Seaman Talks: My Name Is Frank. 75p. London: Allen & Unwin; New York: Norton, 1941.
First given as BBC talks by Laskier, a serving merchant seaman, these are transcripts of recordings about his life as a merchant seaman at war. US title: My Name Is Frank |
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| 2711 | LASKIER, Frank. Log Book. 109p. London: Allen & Unwin, 1942; New York: Scribner, 1943.
A fictionalised account of how the author went to sea, but as a result of a chance wartime meeting showed a natural aptitude for broadcasting tales of the hardships facing merchant seamen at war. |
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| 2712 | LAXON, W.A. Davey and the Awatea. 220p., illus., index. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1997. ISBN: 0864692897.
Arthur Davey captained the Union Steam Ship Company's Awatea, the fastest and most luxurious merchant ship in the southern hemisphere in the 1930's. This biography records the careers of both the ship and her most famous master. She was sunk off Bougie while acting as a troopship. Her war service is well recorded. |
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| 2713 | LEE, Norman. Landlubber's Log: 25,000 Miles with the Merchant Navy. 98p. London: Quality, 1945.
A writer's humorous account of six months spent as a supernumerary in the wartime Merchant Navy. The dust-jacket gives the sub-title as 20,000 Miles….. |
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| 2714 | LEWIS, William J. Under the Red Duster: The Merchant Navy in World War II. 184p., index. Shrewsbury: Airlife, 2003. ISBN: 1840373830.
This collection of stories tells of the extraordinary incidents that occurred to the ships and men who kept Britain's vital maritime lifeline open in the North Atlantic, the Arctic Seas and other oceans during World War II. |
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| 2715 | LINSKEY, Bill. No Longer Required: My War in the Merchant Marine. 233, [7]p., illus. London: Pisces, 1999. ISBN: 0953728501.
The bitter memoirs of a young Irish Geordie who went to sea as a stoker in 1938 and had a hard war in the Atlantic and Arctic, including PQ18 and two sinkings. In 1943 he was put ashore as a severely disturbed hard case. |
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| 2716 | LLOYD'S OF LONDON. Lloyd's War Losses, The Second World War 3 September 1939–14 August 1945: Volume 1, British, Allied and Neutral Merchant Vessels Sunk or Destroyed by War Causes. A Facsimile Reprint of the Original Held at the Guildhall Library, City of London. x, 1053p., index. London: Lloyd's of London, 1989. ISBN: 1850442177.
A very full listing, compiled in the 1950s and including captured vessels, but not those missing or lost due to weather or collision. A second supplementary volume was published in 1991 in a limited edition of 500 copies covering losses outside the scope of volume 1. |
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| 2717 | MACARTHUR, Wilson. The Merchant Service Fights Back. 32p., illus. London: Collins, [1943].
In praise of our gallant seamen, who are quite capable of bloodying the odd German nose. |
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| 2718 | McBREARTY, R. F. Seafaring 1939–45 As I Saw It. [iv], 206p., illus. Edinburgh: Pentland, 1995. ISBN: 1858212820.
McBrearty served in seven vessels from the Arctic and Atlantic to the Mediterranean and British Coastal waters and has something interesting to say on all of them. He was in the Jervis Bay convoy, but saw action on many other occasions. |
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| 2719 | McCULLOCH, Thomas. Mandalay to Norseman. Victoria, BC: Trafford, 2003. ISBN: 1412000718.
Barely sixteen, he went to sea in 1941 as a Cadet Officer. This is an enjoyable autobiography which covers his life from childhood on the Clyde to service at sea from 1925 to 1948. |
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| 2720 | MACLEAN, Meta. The Singing Ship: An Odyssey of Evacuee Children. viii, 256p., illus. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1941.
The author was an escort with the Children's Overseas Reception Board. This describes her 20,000-mile trip to Australia on the Batory, which carried 400 children to safety. |
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| 2721 | 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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