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Contents

Introduction – Ahoy!

Part One – How I Landed the Job

The Tavern Bar

The Interview

Getting There: By Train, Boat and Tractor

Part Two – Pladda: Learning the Ropes

The Mysteries of the Light Chamber

Instructions for a Nuclear War

Better than an All-Day-Breakfast

Summer of the Creep

Cooking up a Storm

A Change of Crew

Heard Chunking from Rangoon to Mandalay

Great Chieftain o’ the Pudding Race

A Brief History of Lighthouses

Shore Leave I: A Surfeit of Choice

Part Three – Ailsa Craig

Paddy’s Milestone

Rock of Ages

The Lost World

The Island Visitors

Fire bombs in Dresden – Mackerel off Ailsa Craig

Sex in the Bush

Light Without Flesh

Shore Leave II: The Edinburgh Festival

Part Four – Hyskeir

The Seamen’s Mission, Oban – The Whirleybirds

The Dalek Invasion of Hyskeir

Nautical Scrabble

Hitchcock Revisited

Postscript

Ocean Necklace