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led workaday lives far from home: a ship's galley in a mid
winter gale; stowing cable by hand; chipping, scraping and
painting through the Tropics; shovelling coal closed in by
the furnace glow; solitary on lookout in the graveyard watch.
It follows them not only around the oceans and seaports of
the world, but backwards in time to their origins and sometimes
forward to their ends.
 Introduction
by Sir Frederic Bolton, one time Chairman of tramp ship operator
The Bolton Steam Shipping Co. Ltd. and a past President of
the General Council of British Shipping. Postscript by F.
Michael Everard CBE BA, Chairman of shipowner F. T. Everard
& Sons Ltd. and also a past President of what by then had
become the Chamber of Shipping.
Specification:
Size 235 x 175mm, 140 pages, 42 period photographs, hardback
cloth covers with laminated dust jacket.
ISBN 0-9532422-2-6
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