High kings to sea kings : a tale of three ships and the landlubber who went to sea / Anthony Holten.
By: Holten, Anthony [author]
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BookPublisher: Cork, Ireland : Anthony Holten, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 421 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781291704242 (paperback).Subject(s): Shipping | Seafaring life | Ocean travel | Voyages and travelsDDC classification: 920 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending | 920 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00180576 | ||
| General Lending | MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending | 920 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00180575 |
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In the changing world of 1960's Ireland, a young man named Anthony Holten answered a newspaper advertisement and soon found himself in a totally alien environment upon the high seas. From the even tenor of a mechanic's life in Dublin, he was catapulted into the hustle and bustle of shipboard life - where a new world enfolded him amidst the clamorous machinery spaces of steamships plying between many far-flungdestinations. The writer recounts his experiences as a developing marine engineer and his impressions as a rawlandlubber learning a mariner's life in a story that takesthe reader on a worldwide journey that begins in ruralIreland: from his early experiences in the ports ofEurope to the cold hostile Atlantic Ocean and theBaltic Sea; across the western oceans to the Caribbean,through the Panama Canal to the Pacific Ocean; andthen from the USA to the searing heat of the PersianGulf via Capetown and ever onwards to the Far East.
The STS Halia -- The STS Verena -- The STS Marinula.