Always at sea / Mary Wardle.

An autobiography of Merchant Navy sailor William Donald, assembled from his extensive diary by his daughter Mary Wardle. The book focuses on the period from 1912, when Donald was apprenticed aged 14 to Anchor Line, to the end of the Second World War, and includes colourful descriptions of day-to-day life and service on Merchant Navy vessels during war and peacetime, and accounts of Donald's various officer examinations and promotion to master. Includes black and white ship illustrations by Donald throughout.