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A Love of Ships
Book • 1990
George King's memoir recounts his early voyages with the Blue Funnel Line and later career in the BP tanker fleet, illustrated with sketches and personal recollections of life at sea.
The book covers wartime and peacetime service, detailing convoys, shipboard routines, and encounters that shaped his maritime life.
King's drawings accompany chapters that trace voyages across the Atlantic and the Pacific, offering a visual record of the ships and seafaring culture of the era.
The memoir also preserves anecdotes about fellow crew members, including a carpenter named Leo Galvin, linking personal stories to broader merchant navy history.
As both a narrative and sketchbook, it serves as a valuable firsthand account for those interested in mid-20th-century merchant shipping.
The book covers wartime and peacetime service, detailing convoys, shipboard routines, and encounters that shaped his maritime life.
King's drawings accompany chapters that trace voyages across the Atlantic and the Pacific, offering a visual record of the ships and seafaring culture of the era.
The memoir also preserves anecdotes about fellow crew members, including a carpenter named Leo Galvin, linking personal stories to broader merchant navy history.
As both a narrative and sketchbook, it serves as a valuable firsthand account for those interested in mid-20th-century merchant shipping.
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Mentioned by Clive Fennessy when describing a serendipitous charity-shop find that revealed details of his relative Leo Galvin and the ship Asphalion.
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