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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814762903321

Autore

Sager Eric W. <1946->

Titolo

Ships and memories : merchant seafarers in Canada's age of steam / / Eric W. Sager

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, c1993

ISBN

1-283-22573-5

9786613225733

0-7748-5464-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Disciplina

387.5/0971/0904

Soggetti

Merchant marine - Canada - History - 20th century

Merchant mariners - Canada

Steam-navigation - Canada - History

Sea stories

Authors, Canadian - 20th century

Shipping - Canada - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Yarns -- Going to Sea -- Work -- Officers and Masters -- Class -- Family -- Masculinity -- Hazards -- War -- Union -- Canada -- Notes -- Glossary -- Sources and Collaborators -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Canada is a great maritime nation. Although ships and the sea have been part of its history for centuries, very little is known about the men and women who have worked in its coastal and lake fleets. Ships and Memories is a fascinating account of life at sea during the age of steam. In it, seafarers tell ther own stories and remember the good times as well as the bad, in peace and war and during the depression. Eric Sager draws on interviews with master mariners, engineers, able seamen, cooks, stewards, and many others who worked aboard steamships from 1920 to 1950.