Arthur Webster

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1928 and moved, with his family to Los Angeles, California in 1939.

With a falsified birth certificate joined the U.S. Merchant Marine at age 15

in June 1944 and sailed until 1956.

The book, Down to the Sea is a true portrate of life onboard tankers and freighters from the prespective of a member of the crew.

The 12 stories therein told are true and take a boy from an innocient youth to

manhood.

A torrid love affair in Panama to a munity on the high seas enrout to wartime Korea.

A tiger hunt in India to almost sinking in the gulf of Oman