Merchant Ships 'Gus' Sailed On

Home from the Sea

                                      INSKRIFNINGSBOK               Brig 'Brarr'                                                1901
                                          (Swedish log book)                   Skou  'Emma'                                             1902   
                                                                                           Skou  'Fridhem'                                          1903
                                                                                                         Frigareso 'Amsterdam'                              1905 Norway
                                                                                                         Bark  'M.Roosvall'                                     1905 Norway
                                                                                                        Angfartyget 'Reserve'                               1906 Norway
                                                                                                               Tyskeany  'Burgermeister Petersen'        1906 Philadelphia

                                                                                                                                                     
                                    
                                     BRITISH BOARD OF TRADE                    SS  'Rotterdam'                                        1907 Calcutta, USA
                                         CERTIFICATE BOOK                     SS  'Farringford'                                       1908 Port Said
                                                                                                  SS  'Competitor'                                       1908 Foreign
                                                                                             SS  'Lord Downshire'                               1908 USA
                                                                                                               SS  'Wingrove'                                          1909 Mediterranean
                                                                                                                       SS  'Oxonian '                                           1909 New Orleans             
                                                                                                           SS  'Waiwera'                                           1910 New Zealand
                                                                                                         SS  'Teleconia'                                          1910 cable repair
                                                                                                                         SS  'Demosthenes'                                    1911  Australia (5 voyages)
                                                                                                                         TSS  'Lake Michigan'                               1913  trooping (13 voyages)
                                                                                                               SS  'Lake Manitoba'                                1918 Montreal, USA,
                                                                                                SS  'Burmese Prince'                                1919 France
                                                                                                         SS  'Celtic Prince'                                     1919 Far East       
                                                                                                  

 


 
                                                                                                     
 Bark 'M.Roosvall'

                                                                                                                                                                                                

Schooner 'Emma' ? 

SS 'Fridhem' 

   SS 'Waiwera' 

SS 'Lord Downshire'

   SS 'Demosthenes' 

TSS 'Lake Michigan  

SS 'Burmese Prince'

SS 'Celtic Prince' 

 SS 'Rotterdam'

 SS 'Lake Manitoba' 

 After serving on the SS Burmese Prince he signs on to the S.S Corsair

 U.S.S. 'Corsair', J.P. Morgan's yacht served as sub-chaser 

during WW 1. Gus served as Bos'n aboard her.
 

Gus, upper left and crew of the S.S. 'Corsair'     

  SS Corsair in Genoa 

Read the whole story,

adventures on board these ships across the 7 oceans, his experiences during World War One

aboard British Troop Transports and his encounter with U-Boat 100 in the North Atlantic

and the war diary of 1st Wireless Officer Austin Reginald Beynon and the day to day account from

'Home from the sea'

'Bos'n Gus'

 146 nautical photographs and illustrations,

British Board of Trade and Swedish certificate books, lyrics to Gus’s favorite sea chanties,

 and more.

'when ships were made of wood and men of iron'

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