From hardships to steamships : memoirs of a merchant seaman during World War II /Charlie Workman.

Memoirs of ordinary seaman Charlie Workman commencing with his left-wing working-class childhood in poverty. A sequence of stories about his life on board various ships during the Second World War and after. Covers the basic day-to-day experiences of what life was like in the Merchant Navy and includes many insights into the routines and accidents on board ship and the people he observed and interacted with.