Merchant Marine Book
'Home from the sea'
Bos'n Gus
How 'Bos'n Gus' survived being
torpedoed by U Boat - 100
and the Battle at Gallipoli, World War One
Bos'n Ture Alfvegren Lt. Oscar Pihlack Wireless
Officer A. Beynon Kapitanleutnant von Loe
Merchant Ships
U.S.S.'Lake Yahara'
T.S.S.'Lake Michigan
U-Boat 100
As an old man, Bos'n Ture 'Gus' Alvegren relates
his 40 years at sea to a young boy
Ture
Alfvegren, born on November 27, 1884 in Wisby, Gotland
an island off the coast of Sweden
went to sea at age thirteen
331 pages +
146 pictures of sail and steam ships + excerpts from the War Diary of
1st Wireless Officer
Austin Reginald Beynon
Swedish and British Log Books
plus Bos'n Gus's favorite yarns and chanties and more
An
adventurous story of a Swedish sailor and the challenges
he faced after leaving home at age thirteen. His
exploits aboard sail and steam
ships at the turn of the nineteenth century and into
the twentieth
century and the dangers he encountered as a sailor in his Merchant Marine
during the First World War.
Ture ‘Gus’ Alfvegren served as a merchant seaman from 1897 to 1936. His ship the
T.S.S. 'Lake Michigan' hit a mine in 1916 and was later torpedoed by U-Boat 100 in the
North
Atlantic in 1918.
Enjoy this wonderful story of a man who ‘exemplified the ideal that there is
‘no
institution in which a man’s ambition is sooner recognized than in the Naval
Services’
From sail
to steam
1894 1936
'Gus' Ture Alfvegren recounts his voyages aboard these vessels:
Brigg
‘Brarr' Skou ‘Emma’
Frigareso ‘Amsterdam’ Bark ‘M. Roosvall’
Angfartyget ‘Reserve’ Tyskeany ‘ Burgermeister Petersen’
SS ‘Rotterdam’
SS ‘Farringford’
SS ‘Competitor’ SS ‘Lord Downshire’
SS ‘Wingrove’ SS ‘Oxonian’
SS ‘Waiwera’ SS ‘Teleconia’
SS ‘Demosthenes’ TSS ‘Lake Michigan’
SS ‘Celtic Prince'
