An Odyssey: From Ebbw Vale to TynesideAuthor's Web Site, 2007 - 234 Seiten |
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... voyage in detail since some were without incident but I give the return convoy of my first voyage , HX229 , some prominence as a number of books have been written about it . I have consulted my Dutch payslips and these confirm I was a ...
... voyage in detail since some were without incident but I give the return convoy of my first voyage , HX229 , some prominence as a number of books have been written about it . I have consulted my Dutch payslips and these confirm I was a ...
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... voyage. The details of the British ships I served on are tabulated in my seaman's logbook, in particular my five voyages to New York on the Queen Elizabeth and my three voyages to India, Ceylon and Singapore on the liner Capetown Castle ...
... voyage. The details of the British ships I served on are tabulated in my seaman's logbook, in particular my five voyages to New York on the Queen Elizabeth and my three voyages to India, Ceylon and Singapore on the liner Capetown Castle ...
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... voyage was. I had no sea-boots or waterproof clothing and was poorly equipped for cold weather. I now learned that merchant seamen were not given any clothing for sea-duty, being expected to buy everything they needed themselves. I was ...
... voyage was. I had no sea-boots or waterproof clothing and was poorly equipped for cold weather. I now learned that merchant seamen were not given any clothing for sea-duty, being expected to buy everything they needed themselves. I was ...
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... voyage . He was the sailors ' “ Peggy ” : the name given to the boy who cleaned the sailors ' quarters , got their food from the galley , etc. There was a 16 - year old Scottish boy who was the “ Peggy ” for the firemen and I would meet ...
... voyage . He was the sailors ' “ Peggy ” : the name given to the boy who cleaned the sailors ' quarters , got their food from the galley , etc. There was a 16 - year old Scottish boy who was the “ Peggy ” for the firemen and I would meet ...
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... voyage. As so often happens, he was attracted by a woman who no doubt promised him a good time. Unfortunately for him she was acting as a decoy for one or more men whose intent was to beat him up and take all his money. This episode ...
... voyage. As so often happens, he was attracted by a woman who no doubt promised him a good time. Unfortunately for him she was acting as a decoy for one or more men whose intent was to beat him up and take all his money. This episode ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accepted Archie Thompson arrived Aunty Babcock Barry Barry Island became boys Cardiff Cardiff University career civil engineering coal colliery completely convoy Cousin crew deck director Ebbw Vale father felt forecastle freighter friends future Ganymedes Garn Terrace Gloucester grammar school Halfway House Head Wrightson Hicks Huwood idea industry interest John Buckley join Keith Mitchell knew later learned lived look managers Marjorie Marjorie’s matriculation Merchant Navy merchant ships Michael miles mother Newcastle Newport Norman Staff Painted from memory parents play power-station problem railway reactor realised result River Ebbw Rochester sailed seamen shipmates Simon Carves sister soon South Wales Stan stay steel steelworks surprised Susan talking technical thought told took trip Troake U-boats Uncle Ron Uncle Ted usually valley voyage walk Waunlwyd Welsh Winget York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite ix - Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within, and God o'erhead ! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
Seite ix - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife 1 Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Seite 219 - This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall : Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Seite ix - Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act — act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead. Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving...
Seite 85 - For the bread that you eat and the biscuits you nibble, The sweets that you suck and the joints that you carve, They are brought to you daily by all us Big Steamers— And if any one hinders our coming you'll starve.
Seite 85 - Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?" "We are going to fetch you your bread and your butter, Your beef, pork, and mutton, eggs, apples, and cheese.
Seite ix - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Seite 224 - But see ! The rising Moon of Heav'n again Looks for us, Sweet-heart, through the quivering Plane : How oft hereafter rising will she look Among those leaves — for one of us in vain ! ex.
Seite 54 - You hollow skull, what has your grin to say, But that a mortal brain, with trouble tossed, Sought once, like mine, the sweetness of the day, And strove for truth, and in the gloam was lost.
Seite 54 - And walls me in like any pedant hack? Fellow of moth that flits and worm that delves, I drag my life through learned bric-a-brac. And shall I here discover what I lack, And learn, by reading countless volumes through, That mortals mostly live on misery's rack, That happiness is known to just a few?