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DEDICATION

‘He dreamed of the ship on the sea,

That would carry his father and he,

To a place they could never be found,

To a place far away from this town,

A Newcastle ship without coals,

They would sail to the island of souls.’

Sting, The Soul Cages (1991).

This book is dedicated to the loving memory of my great-grandfather, George Paul Oldacre Parker (1893–1981), who formerly worked as a fireman (stoker) on a Swedish merchant steamer vessel on his passage home to Britain in 1924 from Australia, travelling through Singapore, India, Aden, Suez and the Mediterranean.