![]() Rostron witnessed fights in the rigging, and was once punched by an angry seaman hard enough to send him staggering back thirty feet, but the seaman lost when Rostron got serious with his fists.Īfter a few years, Rostron reluctantly went to work for Cunard. Rostron had to face an impromptu court of inquiry from the group and had to threaten them right back to save himself. ![]() On another voyage, there had been a miscalculation in ordering food, and all the author had to eat for weeks were loaves made of cracked wheat, brick-hard once they cooled.Īnother time, as Roston's ship was sailing around a harbor with a party of drunken ships' captains on board, and one of them nearly drove the vessel aground, only being stopped when Rostron dropped anchor. Twice he fell, once from the rigging and another down a hatch, landing on his back both times, but he managed to avoid permanent injury. ![]() Rostron says his first voyage was three months of horror, fighting ice-hardened sails in storms while soaked with rain, snow, or sleet until his fingernails were torn off and his hands were left raw and bleeding. His memoir is filled with plenty of good anecdotes from his career, which started in 1887 when the author was a cadet on a clipper. ![]() Home From The Sea by Arthur Rostron is a book every sailing buff should know. ![]()
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