Coasting Bargemaster
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Printed: 2000 Author: Bob Roberts
Publisher: Seafarer Books ISBN: 978-0953818013
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Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher's blurb:
This account gives a vivid picture of the romance and realism of coastal trade, initially in a schooner, then in Thames spiritsail sailing barges before and during the war. The author tells of the havoc wrought by barges caught out in severe gales and the hazards of plying trade in wartime.