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...cold. Scotland-born, he began his career as a cook's boy in a Canadian lumber camp, later became the owner of great timber stands in California. Not until 1901, when he was 57, did he turn to the sea. His first ship was the steam schooner Newsboy, a freighter to carry his timber. Shipping fascinated him and he increased his investment, going many times to the Orient to "drum up trade" with Chinese merchants. In 1924, aged 80, he established the first round-the-world passenger-freight service on a regular schedule. Many of his maritime adventures have been...
...pinch-faced Liverpool schoolboy, is brutally forced to work by a drunken father. His first job, bailing bilge water out of a filthy ship and chipping salt from the boilers, so sickens him that he crawls on to a tramp steamer, escapes as a stowaway. His life on the freighter is grim with the obscenities of shipmates from cook to bo's'n. Here is not the sea of Conrad, romantic with austerities, but a sea which has beaten its devotees into a coarse ritual. "What kind of world was it into which he had flung himself? All men sailing...
...Vladivostok last week the senior mechanician of the Soviet freighter Terett and his assistant were sentenced to death for criminal negligence. They had wrecked the Terett, not once, but four times...
...After we docked at Leningrad," confessed a penitent stoker from the freighter Asta, "there was a big meeting. All us German sailors in town came. A Russian got up and explained a lot of things. So we all voted to strike...
...emerged in 1918 seriously gassed. A Mlle Berthe Weill who ran a little gallery on the Rue Lafitte took him up. He had a little success, but made no money. Last year he had a chance to do the thing he had always dreamed of. He shipped on a freighter out of Marseilles for a cruise in the Indian Ocean. Four days out the ship was wrecked on a reef off Alexandria...