If you really wish to know the number of individuals aim to inspire themselves to have reading routine, you an additionally be influenced of it. This is not sort of large book. But, this book will certainly assist you to get to the big idea. When you pertain to read this book, you could get the soft documents of it as well as save it in some different devices. Naturally, it will rely on just what tool that you possess as well as do.
For this situation, the book is recommended to conserve in laptop, computer system, or in the device. Error: Invalid email or password combination. Keep me logged in until I manually log out. Don't have an account yet Close Login. Authors Clare Hardy S. Your contact preferences Loyalty Scheme. SS Ceramic book disappoints. By Kelvin Bremner Far too much technical detail concerning origin and construction of the ship itself, and too much personal detail about the sole survivor.
His personal letters from the POW camp have no bearing of the Ceramic and seem to have been included to provide "bulk". The actual sinking and the circumstances of the sinking received only short accounts. It would have been interesting to learn more of the identity of passengers and crew I admit to prejudice, as my cousin was a surgeon on his way to set up an orthopaedic reseach unit in S Africa yet neither he or any of the QA nurses on board are even mentioned.
Posting Komentar. Kamis, 24 Juli [R Jan 02, JD rated it liked it Shelves: ww2-on-the-oceans. The author has done a lot of research on the subject of the sinking of the SS Ceramic and has to be commended for it, but the book is more like a museum for the Ceramic. The book covers from the Ceramics origins, it's troop carrying in World War 1 and the inter-war years service, to it's service in World War 2 right up to it's sinking.
There are too many needless letters and diary extracts in the book which does not ad value to the book, but just fills too many pages. Some of this book is intere The author has done a lot of research on the subject of the sinking of the SS Ceramic and has to be commended for it, but the book is more like a museum for the Ceramic.
Some of this book is interesting, but most of it isn't. Pavlos rated it really liked it Dec 08, Ross Hardy rated it it was amazing Sep 14, Lawson Smith rated it it was amazing Jul 15, Michael Dunne marked it as to-read Jul 26, Joan Clare marked it as to-read Oct 12, And the soft data is exactly what you could give to you.
Let's get guide and read it now. Yet, scarcely had she completed her maiden voyage, than war broke out, and she found herself requisitioned by the Australian government as a troop transport, returning to her original role as a passenger carrying merchant ship during the inter-war years, the heyday of ocean transport.
With the outbreak of the Second World War, the SS Ceramic stayed on her regular route, but again found herself transporting troops between continents, as well as civilian passengers; a dual role that was considered a 'calculated risk' at the time. One of the casualties was the author's grandfather, Trevor Winser. This book is the result of the author's investigation into the circumstances of that night, and the ship that shared his fate.
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