Making Waves: Paddle Steamer to Liner... Portuguese Coaster to Norwegian Tanker: A Mariner'S Tale 1939-48 [Audiobook] download free by Charles Aitchison
- Listen audiobook: Making Waves: Paddle Steamer to Liner... Portuguese Coaster to Norwegian Tanker: A Mariner'S Tale 1939-48
- Author: Charles Aitchison
- Release date: 2010/6/11
- Publisher: SILVER LINK PUBLISHING LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9781857943276
- Rating: 7.36 of 10
- Votes: 113
- Review by: Zelda Castaneda
- Review rating: 9.86 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/11
- Duration: 2H57M34S in 256 kbps (48 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-20
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MP3, MPEG4, Vorbis, Musepack, WAV, WMA, AU (compression TAR.XZ, RAR, DMG, BZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 240
- Includes a PDF summary of 28 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 20M12S (5.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: This autobiography records the author's remarkably varied maritime career. In 1939 he obtained his Scottish Higher Leaving Certificate and, unable to obtain an apprenticeship, later passed his 2nd Mate's Certificate, and sailed as a navigating officer. This gave him the freedom to serve on a very large variety of vessels, beginning aboard MacBraynes' paddle steamer PS Gondolier as a First Class Pantry Boy until war was declared. In the following ten years, including the entire Second World War, he served aboard a UK coasting vessel converted for service as a Convoy Rescue Ship, a Portuguese coaster flying the Panamanian flag, two liners, a millionaire's steam yacht, four tankers (one of which was Norwegian and one adapted to fuel the Royal Navy escort at sea) and nine cargo ships (again one was Norwegian and one a weather-reporting ship). While probably not unique, this assortment would certainly be hard to equal, far less surpass. 'Making Waves' thus provides a wide-ranging account of what life in the Merchant Navy was really like and the conditions in the countries visited, and contains many anecdotes and a deal of humor.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Ships & Shipping, Maritime History, Autobiography: General
- Download servers: FileServe, Torrent, Dropbox, UsersCloud, Hotfile. Compressed in TAR.XZ, RAR, DMG, BZ, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 13.08 USD
- Dimensions: 128x198x22mm
- Weight: 258.55g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Peterborough, United Kingdom
Vote:
