1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)
Contents
Acknowledgements ; A Guide to Seafaring Language; Preliminary ; 1 School for the Almost Serious; 2 War and Pisces; 3 Slow Passage ; 4 Painted Iron; 5 An Interlude in the North East; 6 Indian Ocean; 7 Death of a Giant; 8 Chasing Conrad ; 9 Gazing into the Abyss ; 10 Hark the New Dawn; The Ship's Epilogue
Summary
Set in the mid-1970s during the closing years of the golden age of British shipping, this is the author's account of the five years during which he worked as a junior officer in the Far East and South Pacific
