Name: The Wireless Officer
Author: Percy F. Westerman
ISBN: 978-1523732289

Teen & Young Adult | Literature & Fiction

The Wireless Officer

By Percy F. Westerman 13 Jun, 2019

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Peter Mostyn had been "on the beach" for nearly six months. In other words, he was out of a berth. Not that it was any fault of his that a promising and energetic young wireless officer should be without a ship for such a protracted period. An unprec ... Read more

Peter Mostyn had been "on the beach" for nearly six months. In other words, he was out of a berth. Not that it was any fault of his that a promising and energetic young wireless officer should be without a ship for such a protracted period. An unprecedented slump in British shipping—when hundreds of vessels flying the Red Ensign were laid up, while the bulk of the world's trade was carried by the mercantile fleet of Germany—had resulted, amongst other ills, in the wholesale "sacking" of officers and men, who to a great extent had been the means of warding off the grim spectre of starvation during those black years of the World War. Less

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Percy F. Westerman

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Percy Francis Westerman (1876 – 22 February 1959) was a prolific author of children's literature, many of his books are adventures with military and naval themes.He was born in Portsmouth, England i...

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