TALL TALES

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HERO

A Reliable Steam Engine
Seeing Service in Two Wars
Rescues a Crew from a Derelict Schooner
Used in the Movie “SAN PEBBLES”
Rescued and Rebuilt Aboard
SS LANE VICTORY

THAT DAMNED PARROT

Sharing a Cabin with the Bird and its Owner
On a Ship with Sick Mules Bound For Burma
Lucky to Get Off at Capetown SA

ODD TWIST OF FATE

German U-boat efforts to disrupt supply lines in the early days of World War II.

Photo of SS British Chivalry

NEAR MUTINY

A few years after WWII, aboard  a Liberty Class cargo ship operating out of Seattle

JONAH and the MARK of CAIN

Seaman’s Superstitions
Get in the Way.
Never Sail on a Friday

HMS PRIMROSE

Convoy Duty to Murmansk
Rescuing Survivors at Great Risk

BEACHBUM

Three young men share a shell crater during WWI Meuse-Argonne campaign of the 79th, Infantry Division A.E.F.  (American Expeditionary Force)