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Master Mariner: A Life Under Way
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ISBN10: 1906266131
ISBN13: 9781906266134
Publisher: Sheridan House
Published: Jun 26 2009
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781906266134
Publisher: Sheridan House
Published: Jun 26 2009
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
From his days as a cadet on the aging training ship Worcester, Captain Philip Rentell's forty-year career has spanned the world's oceans and a huge variety of seagoing experience. He served as a junior officer on numerous freighters and liners, as the navigator of cross-Channel hovercraft, and then as first officer of the Cunard flagship QE2, on which he went to the South Atlantic with over 3,500 British troops and a volunteer crew of 650 during the Falklands War of 1982. SInce leaving Cunard in 1990. he has been and English Channel and North Sea pilot, and has commanded a succession of cruise ships.
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