The Vagrant Gypsy Life: A Merchant Navy Radio Officer’s Early Life At Sea

The author recounts his formative years in training to be a merchant navy radio officer in the later 1960's and his early life at sea in the 1970's. It is a candid story of a young man growing up in a harsh environment, in an age just before the enormous advances in communications and when morse code still ruled. Of great interest to those studying maritime history, and equally to any youngster contemplating a life at sea.