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Hayes, Sir Bertram Reminiscences of Windjammers, Troops and Travellers; Hull Down
New York The Macmillan Co. 1925 NAP Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
Blue cloth, paper spine label; very light shelf wear to bottom of boards; all plates present ; Photographs; 8vo; 310 pages; Includes a frontis portrait plate and 7 additional b&w photo plates. Sir Bertram Hayes was a commander of the White Star Line; this book recounts his early days on sailing ships, as well as peaceful times after the Great War, but the bulk of the book deals with transport service during wartime. Hayes sailed on both the Britannic and the Olympic, both sister ships to the Titanic. He first began carrying troops on The Britannic in the South African War. His first service in World War I was upon the Adriatic; he was transferred to the Olympic in 1915. The Olympic had served as a mail and passenger steamship on the Atlantic until the war began. Her war record was a notable one. She encountered German submarines on more than one occasion, carried over 200,000 troops, and steamed over 200,000 miles. After the Armistice she repatriated 50,000 Canadian and American troops. On one occasion during the Gallipoli campaign she carried as many as 8,000 troops. The Olympic became the only merchant vessel to sink an enemy warship when she rammed a German U-Boat, the U103 in 1918. Index.
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