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Hit the Deck!: A Memoir of an Apprentice Boy

Hit the Deck!: A Memoir of an Apprentice Boy

Paperback

Naval History

ISBN10: 1982079886
ISBN13: 9781982079888
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Dec 27 2017
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
These incredible memoirs began in 1899 by 15 year-old Gaither Steve Stevens soon after he joined the Navy as an Apprentice Boy. It was a different world and a different Navy. His extraordinary experiences were captured in a typed manuscript kept safe and unpublished until now. In these writings, you'll find adventures of a lifetime highlighting encounters with a grizzly bear, bar fights, a train robbery, murder, boxing, fiestas, abduction as a sex slave, turtle races, wild shipmates, an Eskimo prostitute, and other savory scenes. Gaither's chronicles of fellow blue-jackets and places he visited are wonderous, humorous, and heart-warming, which he wrote from the innocence and naivety of a young man. This wild rollercoaster reveals life in a nearly forgotten time that produced some of the Navy's finest men.

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