Written mostly between the shipping crisis of 1917 and the U-boat surrender of 1918, this is a merchant captain’s record of how the Merchants’ Service carried Britain through the war. He describes relations with the Navy, coastal traffic, fishing fleets, convoys, armed merchantmen and the seamen who sailed on despite submarines, with drawings by his brother Muirhead Bone.
A vivid seaman’s tribute to the unsung men of the merchant ships. Download the free EPUB.