THE LONG SILENCE FALLS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE MERCHANT NAVY RADIO OFFICER 1900-2000 (VOLUME II)
Written by Tony Selman, et al
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THE LONG SILENCE FALLS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE MERCHANT NAVY RADIO OFFICER 1900-2000 (VOLUME II)
Written by Tony Selman, et al.
Stock no. 1824441
1st thus.
2015.
Softcover.
Large format.
Nearly fine condition.
More stories from QSO. A cross section of articles that have been published in The Radio Officers' Asssociation quarterly newsletter 'QSO' between 1999 and 2012. Introduction by Tony Selman, Chairman of The Radio Officers' Association. Large format. Blue cardwraps. B/w photos. A nice copy.
Front cover
Contents
- 1. More War Stories
- The Leaving of Philadelphia - The Loss of the Ramon de Larrinaga
- My Second trip to Sea - The Beacon Grange
- My Time on the Eastern Prince
- Convoy conferences
- Sixty Two Years with Samuel Morse
- The Sinking of the Manchester Merchant, 25 February 1943
- A Long Haul with Incidents
- ss Creemuir
- Peter Le Quesne Johnson
- On the North African Coast
- The Tragedy of PQ17: Loss of the Hartlebury
- Strange Voyage of the Baron Ogilvy
- The New Columbia: Sinking and subsequent use of the ship's lifeboat transmitter
- Visual Signalling
- Life in a Wartime Tanker
- War Prize - A World War II Voyage on a Captured German Cargo Liner
- 2. Travelling the World: Life on the Ocean Wave
- Two Trips with Palm Line
- Emergency 58
- A Voyage on Caltex Bahrain
- Turmoil and Flying Enterprise
- Maskeliya and Tresillian
- Recalling Three Trips to Aussie during the £10 Assistance Passage Scheme
- China Coast
- The Weather Ships of the North Atlantic
- Ocean Weather Ships
- Life aboard an India-run Cargo Ship
- Donaldson Line's Santona/GCDU
- Radio Distress Traffic and the Foundering of Mikhail Lermontov / UQTT
- Life Ashore
- Photo Block One: Classic photos from the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
- 3. Irish Stories
- First Trip
- A Short Trip
- Up the Amazon
- Recollection of Ken Grattan - Radio Officer 1969 to 1993
- A Touch of Shamrock
- Swallowing the Anchor
- 500 kHz - the Historical Band
- Prelude to a tragedy
- 4. Freelance and Under a Foreign Flag
- mv Bowplate / LMCE
- Under a Foreign Flag
- From Company man to Freelance: Part 1
- From Company man to Freelance: Part 2
- A Sumatran Adventure
- From Company man to Freelance: Part 3
- From Company man to Freelance: Part 4
- From Company man to Freelance: Part 5
- The Acid test: Some episodes on an Acid Tanker
- Circumnavigation of the World Together with my Wife
- Golden Days of the Golden Jay
- 5. First Trips, Last Trips and Voyages in between
- Purser
- Cruising 50 years on
- My First Voyage
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- Two Ellermans
- My Last Voyage
- My time at sea: 1937-39
- First Trip on my own
- My First Ship
- Demise of Canberra
- Strathardle, a maiden voyage
- 6. From the Archivist, a Selection of Articles