Master Mariner
Author | : Philip Rentell |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2009-06-26 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781574093575 |
ISBN-13 | : 1574093576 |
Rating | : 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: From his days as a cadet on the aging training ship Worcester, Captain Philip Rentell's forty-year career has spanned the world's oceans and a huge variety of seagoing experience. He served as a junior officer on numerous freighters and liners, as the navigator of cross-Channel hovercraft, and then as first officer of the Cunard flagship QE2, on which he went to the South Atlantic with over 3,500 British troops and a volunteer crew of 650 during the Falklands War of 1982. SInce leaving Cunard in 1990. he has been and English Channel and North Sea pilot, and has commanded a succession of cruise ships.