A Sailor's Story
Sailor in Steam. By J. Murray Lindsay. Rigby, Adelaide. 147 pp.
In the days when the sovereign of the United Kingdom was also Emperor of India, the life of an officer in the service of the British India Steam Navigation Company was pleasant, placid and almost uneventful, or sb one would judge from this sailor’s account of it. Mr Lindsay began his apprenticeship in the last days of sail, and graduated perforce to steam. He tells of freight runs on the coast of India, and occasional voyages to Japan and Australia. There is a good description of a ship in a typhoon, and passing references are made to a stranding and storms, but Mr Lindsay is obviously handier with the sextant than the pen, and I the reader searches in vain [for a stirring tale of the sea.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31161, 10 September 1966, Page 4
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