ASIN: B00B2JRD58
Publisher: Julie Quine
Pages: 246
John Lindsay Quine (known as 'Dono') joined the Merchant Navy and went to sea in 1906. His father, Canon John Quine, urged him - "Use your note books, keep pen on paper, & sketch bits of machinery. Note what strikes you, what arrests your attention, the aspect or feature that sticks to your memory – of a scene, or an incident."Dono, like his father, was a good story teller, and later in 1968, Mona Douglas suggested that he might add one more thing to his repertoire - writing his memoirs.It was assumed that he never achieved this - until 2010 when, during the clearance of a house of family in Sheffield, an old battered box of jumbled paper was found.The short humanistic stories depict Dono's life from his early years in the Isle of Man at school, to 5th Engineer on a Merchant Navy vessel, and many nautical miles later, Lt. Commander on Royal Navy ships during WW1. He worked alongside ...
