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Life Aboard a Wartime Liberty Ship
Ian M. Malcolm
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Description for Life Aboard a Wartime Liberty Ship
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBG; HBLW; HBW; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 562.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445600208
SKU
V9781445600208
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Ian M. Malcolm
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. ... Read more
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