A Naval Schoolmaster Looks Back - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0948601175 ISBN 13: 9780948601170

Synopsis

Description: Privately Printed, Cambridge, 1st.ed., N.D. (c.1986-87). V + 285 pp., family-tree frontis., + many photographs, &c. Black cloth ; gilt with gilt profile of author to front cover. (No dust jacket was issued with this book). 25 x 18cm. ------. The autobiography of the author who was born at Burnham-on-Sea in 1901, educated locally and at Colston's School in Bristol during the First World War, and went to sea in the Merchant Service in 1917 as an apprenticed cadet with British India, making his first voyage to South America, India and Burma. He worked his way up to 2nd Mate before entering St. Luke's Training College in Exeter (1921-1923) where he trained to become a Naval Schoolmaster. He served in H.M. Ships DEFIANCE, IMPREGNABLE, CASTOR, DUNEDIN, etc., up to the Second World War - on the China station and elsewhere. He then describes his war at sea from 1939 to 1942 : the ALTMARK incident ; service in AURORA, GURKHA, NAIAD, TIGER etc ; he describes taking on board the survivors of a sunken U-boat ; Narvik ; Mediterranean convoy duty ; Battle for Crete ; sorties of the 15th Cruiser Squadron ; life at Malta ; action against the Italian fleet etc. His working and family life after the war is also described - Scotland, Leamington Spa, and Swanage - having left the Navy in 1946.

Edition details

• ISBN 10: 0948601175
• ISBN 13: 9780948601170
• Binding: Hardcover