Jack Woodside grew up in Liverpool, and at the age of fifteen, in 1949, his one ambition was to join the merchant navy, just like his father and his grandfather, so he could see the world.
The liner on the cover is the Empress of Scotland, the flagship of the Canadian Pacific Steamships, known as CPR, a very elegant liner. In the year of 1951 at the age of eighteen I was one of the three officer’s stewards on board the liner. That same year Princess Elizabeth and her husband Prince...
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