A Ship, A Sailor, A Salty Yarn

by George Clark

A sailor's tale of a twelve-month tour of duty on an RN warship in the 1950s recorded by Harry Craig who falls in love with a wren in is chased by an angry bull around the quarterdeck of his frigate; is stalked by a leopard and seduced by a grandmother in Sri Lanka; is rescued by two nuns when threatened by Mau-Mau warriors in Kenya; is re-united with the Wren he fell in love with in Malta when she joins the ship as a liaison officer; assists the SAS in ousting rebels from a mountain in Oman; saves a Russian harpooner from having her fingers amputated in the Red Sea; and is in serious trouble when the four ladies in his life are waiting for him on the quayside when the ship returns home.

347 pages, Paperback

Published April 28, 2018