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Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the authors' original publications, the...

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Sir David William Bone MBE (22 June 1874 - 17 May 1959) was a Scottish Commodore and author of nautical fiction. His work includes The Brassbounder about a brassbounder, a young apprentice on a British Merchant ship. It was included as a recommendation in Literary Taste: How to Form It, a long essay with recommended readings written by Arnold Bennett. Brassbounder is "a classic of the squaresail era". Bone received the Coronation Medal from Ki...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Broken StowageHolds, Shipshape and Sailor-fashion, it is as well to have small packages handy. If the lading is of a miscellaneous character, it is all the more important that there be available some means by which variety in bulk may be packed securely and all made solid to withstand the labouring of the Ship in heavy seas. Billets of wood, dholls of coir yarn, packages of waste material - clippings roots - cork - all odds and en...

Excerpt from Merchantmen-at Arms, the British Merchants Service in the WarCriticism on these grounds is just but it was ever the seaman's custom to dismiss heavy weather - when it was past and gone - and recall only the fine days of smooth sailing. If the hard times of our strain and labouring are not wholly over, at least we have fallen in with a more favouring wind from the land. Conditions in the Merchants' Service are vastly improved since...

Excerpt from The Brassbounder: A Tale of the SeaEyes? One might as well have no eyes. Out board the ship there is nothing to be seen save the swell breaking at the bows as the vessel moves slowly on her course. Only ears are of use to us and the heads of the watchkeepers trim and cant, this way and that, in our efforts to catch a whisper from beyond the curtain that enshrouds us.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousand...

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Sir David William Bone (1874-1959) was a Scottish author. His father was a well-known Glasgow journalist, his great-grandfather was a boyhood companion of Robert Burns. Bone went to sea as an apprentice in the City of Florence, an old-time square-rigger, at the age of fifteen. Captain Bone's fine sea tale, The Brassbounder, published in 1910, has become a classic of the squaresail era, his Broken Stowage (1915) is a collection of shorter sea s...

Excerpt: ...you bet. Say, the place stinks of gunpowder. Am lying on the floor. . . . I have had to leave 'phones. My gear beginning to fly around with concussion. . . . Captain is dead. . . ."-an interval-"Submarine has dived! Submarine has dived!" Yes, we are wiser now! We admit him to full fellowship at sea. And on land, too! We admit him the right to trip it in Kingsway or the Strand, with his kid gloves, and his notebook, and his neat uni...

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Excerpt from Broken Stowage Holds, Shipshape and Sailor-fashion, it is as well to have small packages handy. If the lading is of a miscellaneous character, it is all the more important that there be available some means by which variety in bulk may be packed securely and all made solid to withstand the labouring of the Ship in heavy seas. Billets of wood, dholls of coir yarn, packages of waste material - clippings roots - cork - all odds and ...

Excerpt from The Brassbounder: A Tale of the Sea Eyes? One might as well have no eyes. Out board the ship there is nothing to be seen save the swell breaking at the bows as the vessel moves slowly on her course. Only ears are of use to us and the heads of the watchkeepers trim and cant, this way and that, in our efforts to catch a whisper from beyond the curtain that enshrouds us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of th...

Excerpt from Merchantmen-at Arms, the British Merchants Service in the War About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In ...

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