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During the Second World War, when Britain s very survival depended on her Merchant Navy, ships were being sunk faster than they could be replaced. The mass production of the Liberty Ship, on the assembly-line method in the USA, solved the problem: Britain received 200 of them under the Lend-Lease agreement. From 1943 until 1951, Ian Malcolm was a radio officer/purser with Alfred Holt & Co., owners of the Blue Funnel Line and the Glen Line. His voyages on the Liberty Ships Samite and Samforth, described in this book, were made during wartime, after which he spent a year on the Samnesse, trading mainly between Italy and East Africa. Subsequent voyages were made to the Continent, Far East, Australia and Indonesia. Dealing mainly with life on board his ships and how he spent the sometimes prolonged spells in port, Ian begins his story with his entrance into the Merchant Navy as a radio officer and continues with his crossing to Canada on the Queen Elizabeth to join the Samite in Baltimore. During the Samite s fifteenmonth voyage, she called at various ports in the USA and North Africa while Ian s next ship, the Samforth, on her ten-month voyage, visited Canada, the USA, Egypt, Arabia, India, Mozambique, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Norway and Finland. Life Aboard a Wartime Liberty Ship is an engaging memoir of a young man s maritime adventures, the people he met, the countries he saw, and the intoxicating thrill of life at sea.
- Sales Rank: #473494 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-11-01
- Released on: 2012-11-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author
On leaving the sea, Ian was employed as a clerk for two years, but disliked the job so much that he left to work at G.P.O. Coast Stations, spending a year at Wick Radio and two years at Portishead Radio. In 1956, he resigned to train as a teacher - at Edinburgh University and Moray House - qualifying in 1961. Four years later, he was promoted to Principal Teacher of Modern Studies at Viewforth School in Kirkcaldy, and retired in 1987. He wrote Dundee Memories, published by Birlinn in 2005, and he has also recorded six audio books, covering all his voyages. He has had articles in Sea Breezes, and, in 1997, won first Prize in the Article Category of the Marine Society's competition.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
A story I've never heard before
By Harold A. Fulton
There are more than enough books about the "fighting Navy" but very few that accurately depict the civvie/military life aboard a cargo carrier. This is about life in the cargo hauling business, those too often ignored contract seamen who carried the means of winning the war. There is little glamour and little battle action, it's more about a young man who went to sea and quietly grew up in the process. I had an uncle in the Merchant Marine; he never talked about what he did and how he lived, now I know. I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in WW II.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Not what I expected...
By John
There's very little information about the actual life aboard the ship. Most of it seems to be about his time spent at different ports and his interaction with the citizens. Mildly interesting, but not the exciting war story that I was expecting. I think it would be better to have a title reflecting this. Maybe: "My adventures in Foreign Ports during WWII".
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
An interesting nautical yarn
By John Wingfield
One oft times hears of the fighting side of naval actions yet little is paid to the logistical side that is oft time mundane and routine. This is one of those stories. The author while describing the typical activities of day spared the reader the boredom by going into depth about them. His adventures ashore while timid, show that the time in port was not hurry and dash but several days of down time. When there was action it was brief and intense and gave addage to the expression that in a combat theater things are 98% routine and boredom and 2% excitement and terror.
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