Sail Ho! My Early Years at Sea
by Sir James Bisset
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- 1958; 1961 (Mariners Library ed.) (Mariners Library ed.)
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- Age of Sail
- Epigraph
- Man goeth forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening.
O Lord, how manifold are thy works: in wisdom hast thou
made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
[...] mayest give them meat in due seas... (show all)on.
Psalm CIV - Dedication
- Dedicated To May, my Wife
J.G.P.B. - First words
- After many voyages, in many vessels, on many occassions both naval and mercantile, I feel, now that I have retired after fifty years at sea, that I ought to leave the younger and future generations a printed record of seafari... (show all)ng life as I found it during the transition from the sailing ships of the 1890s to the "monster" liners of today.
Preface.
When I was five years of age, in the year 1888, I saw the S.S. Great Eastern lying at her moorings in the Mersey.
Chapter I. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And in steamers of various kinds and tonnages, in peace and war, I served for forty-three years; but that's a different story, though it begins with this one; and many a time, from comfortable quarters in great liners, I looked back wistfully to the hungry, hardworking, but on the whole carefree days of my adventures in sail.
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