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UNDER FOUR FLAGS BY HERBERT W EDWARDS

EDWARDS, Herbert Wilson. Under Four Flags. (London): Percival Marshall, (1954). First Printing. Pp (8),9-223,(1), frontispiece + 8 p of plates. 8vo, blue cloth. 44 chapters including: 7. Round Cape Horn to Iquique [the Norwegian barque Solheim]; 13. Patterdale [four-masted barque]; 17. In Sail with a Shanghaied Crew; 20. Eighty Days to Melbourne [aboard another four-mastedbarque, Drumalis]; 21. ; 22. A Lee Shore and the Missions to Seamen [Wreck Bay and Newcastle]; 24. Second Mate at Eighteen; 25. Australia with Empty Pockets; 26. In Steam [the Warrungata]; 42. We See an Aeroplane Fly from the Deck of a Ship [HMS Hibernia, with 4 photos]. With glossary. "An absorbing account of what is possibly a unique career, during which the author served under the Norwegian Ensign, the Red Ensign of the British Merchant Service, the Blue Ensign of the Royal Navy Reserve and finally the White Ensign,in sail and steam at the turn of this century."

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