About the Book, the Author, and the Editor
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 A Voyage to Africa
2 The Horse Transport
3 A Trip to Canada
4 A Cargo that did not Arrive
5 The Third Mate
6 The Cross-Channel Run
7 A Wartime Tramp’s Voyage
8 An Oil Tanker to Mexico
9 A Trip out East
10 A Sailor on a Farm
11 A Haulage Contractor
12 To Australia as Quartermaster
13 The Coastal Oil Trade
14 The Bullfight at Inca
15 Life on a Coastal Tramp Steamer
16 The Scotch Coaster
17 The End of my Seafaring
18 The Odd Verse
19 The British Mercantile Marine (An imaginary broadcast talk)
Notes
The early career of George Leonard Noake
