Year: 2016 Language: english Author: John L. Quine Edition: Kindle Format: EPUB Quality: eBook Pages count: 294 Description: John Lindsay Quine (known as 'Dono') joined the Merchant Navy and went to sea in 1906. His father, Canon John Quine, urged him - "Use your note books, keep pen on paper, & sketch bits of machinery. Note what strikes you, what arrests your attention, the aspect or feature that sticks to your memory – of a scene, or an incident." Dono, like his father, was a good story teller, and later in 1968, Mona Douglas suggested that he might add one more thing to his repertoire - writing his memoirs. It was assumed that he never achieved this - until 2010 when, during the clearance of a house of family in Sheffield, an old battered box of jumbled paper was found. The short humanistic stories depict Dono's life from his early years in the Isle of Man at school, to 5th Engineer on a Merchant Navy vessel, and many nautical miles later, Lt. Commander on Royal Navy ships during WW1. He worked alongside Commander A.B.Cunningham on the Termagant during the last year of the war. The stories are enlightening, sobering, at times technical, and some have a good touch of humour, e.g. when a plan to cool down the engine room backfires and leaves a very sooty and red faced Admiral!.....and how a bucket of 'high' fish were turned into a good lobster supper. These are not just stories about war, corruption and survival. They encompass the feelings of family back home through a series of letters, which give an insight into childhood in the early 1900's...a six year old learning to shoot, pastimes, manners... There are storms, near misses, bombing, problems with crew, illness, bad shooting. It is quite remarkable that Dono lived to tell the tale!
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Odyssey Of A Marine Engineer: 1906 to 1918
Language: english
Author: John L. Quine
Edition: Kindle
Format: EPUB
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 294
Description: John Lindsay Quine (known as 'Dono') joined the Merchant Navy and went to sea in 1906. His father, Canon John Quine, urged him - "Use your note books, keep pen on paper, & sketch bits of machinery. Note what strikes you, what arrests your attention, the aspect or feature that sticks to your memory – of a scene, or an incident."
Dono, like his father, was a good story teller, and later in 1968, Mona Douglas suggested that he might add one more thing to his repertoire - writing his memoirs.
It was assumed that he never achieved this - until 2010 when, during the clearance of a house of family in Sheffield, an old battered box of jumbled paper was found.
The short humanistic stories depict Dono's life from his early years in the Isle of Man at school, to 5th Engineer on a Merchant Navy vessel, and many nautical miles later, Lt. Commander on Royal Navy ships during WW1. He worked alongside Commander A.B.Cunningham on the Termagant during the last year of the war.
The stories are enlightening, sobering, at times technical, and some have a good touch of humour, e.g. when a plan to cool down the engine room backfires and leaves a very sooty and red faced Admiral!.....and how a bucket of 'high' fish were turned into a good lobster supper.
These are not just stories about war, corruption and survival. They encompass the feelings of family back home through a series of letters, which give an insight into childhood in the early 1900's...a six year old learning to shoot, pastimes, manners...
There are storms, near misses, bombing, problems with crew, illness, bad shooting. It is quite remarkable that Dono lived to tell the tale!
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