Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Chapter I. Early education and experiences
• Chapter II. I am apprenticed - The green-eyed monster - Experiments - Trades' Union methods
• Chapter III. I become second engineer of a "tramp" - Mal-de-mer - Sandy and his "whuskies" - Value for £2 a week
• Chapter IV. I enter a Tyneside engineering works and go "Foreign" - Various events
• Chapter V. New York - A welcome change - Deck versus engine-room - Letters from home - Vising and an adventure
• Chapter VI. Bound for Havre - "Stolen fruit" - A storm at sea - Roughing it - Observations on sea life - A tragedy
• Chapter VII. The "W----" is refitted - I sign on again - Bound for Kronstadt - New Shipmates and old - The ship's cook and cooking - Epicurean tastes - The ship's autocrat
• Chapter VIII. Back to school - The engineer's "ticket" - Examination ordeals - Success - "Blue Papers" - Back to the engine-room - New conditions - Our personnel - Various kinds of harmony - Baltimore
• Chapter IX. Off to Cork - Routine - "Fretwork"- Flogging the clock - Yarns - Heroism - Chanties - Beautiful Queenstown - Cork - Jack ashore - Early Atlantic steamers
• Chapter X. Mixed memories - My chief's ticket - Literary efforts - Cads - "Limericks" - A burial at sea - Unsailorlike ingratitude - "Tramp" compensations - Malingering - Malta - Ship quarters - Constantinople - "Light" comedy - Remarks and ruminations - Odessa
• Chapter XI. Bound for Antwerp - Paint and prettiness - Doing the "Lions" - "Telegraph" trials - Tyneward ho! - Nasty weather - The Tyne
• Chapter XII. "Guarantee engineer" on new ship - Coat at Cardiff - Eastward ho! - Worries - A haughty skipper - Suez Canal reflections - Newspaper pilfering - Harpies - A friend in Port Said - The Red Sea inferno - Epicurean passengers
• Chapter XIII. Rangoon - Dock and city scenes - The Irish of the East - Burmese dress, customs, etc. - Bound for Venice - Sailors' pranks ashore
• Chapter XIV. Halcyon days - An inventor abroad - Priming - A would-be organiser - Uniforms - Tale of a moustache - Incidents and accidents - Venice - Sightseeing
• Chapter XV. Bound for the Black Sea - Reflections - Forced draught - Bad coal - Observations en route - Odessa - Pumpkin ad nausean - Eastern harpies - London - Home, sweet home
• Chapter XVI. Coaly Tyne again - Our new captain - Overhauls and surveys - Technical changes - Marseilles - Stowaways - Various voyages - Sea language
• Chapter XVII. Clydeward bound - Ice perils - Glasgow -Tamson or Samson - Vyages and shipmates - Indicator diagrams - Christmasses at sea - Wooing a "second mate" - Feminine influences - Rewards - "Rats" - The eternal coal question - Various
• Chapter XVIII. Coaling again - A la carte or cul de sac - Reveries - Ship idiosyncrasies - Rangoon once more
• Chapter XIX. Strange surroundings - Routine - Social caste and amenities - The white man's burden - Pests - Life's uncertainty - Afloat again - Strange passengers and cargoes - Memories grave and gay - Upper Burmah under King Theebaw
• Chapter XX. Burmese war - Advance - King Theebaw captured and deported - Ghoorka methods - Burmese stoicism - A callous officer - Smallpox - Back to the dockyard again
• Chapter XXI. Promoted - Royal visitors - Various comments - Lascars - Markmanship - Burmese executions - A stokehold tragedy - Ladies' ways
• Chapter XXII. A witty couplet - A judge's dictum - Oriental scenes and mentality - Coal and oil - Incidents - R.N.R. commission and M.I.Mech E. (London) - Military training - Variorum
• Chapter XXIII. Afloat again - Sundry happenings - Tragic events - A horse story - Adieu to the Orient - A post-diluvian conundrum - Lighthouse service
• Chapter XXIV. The great war - Signs of the times - Deeds of dering-do - Seafarers' gallantry - Bereavement - Vale