A Piper's Tale - Memories of an Apprenticeship at Barrow Shipyard 1965 to 1970

Based on a memoir plucked from his family history, A Pipers Tale records the impressions made on a teenager as he makes his way into the thorny world of shipbuilding. A world in which the author, during the 1960s, witnessed the change from traditional shipbuilding - where vessels were constructed with a minimum, but adequate, level of technical support via long established trade practices and skills - to the cutting-edge of science-based projects as the Shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness became a 'Leader in Marine Technology' with the making of sophisticated warships and first-of-class vessels.
Also covered, whilst saluting the Yard's Plumbing Fraternity, is the writer's amazement at the wealth of characters and personalities. With a dramatis personae of which any Dickens aficionado would be proud, the book dips into levels of humanity never before explored in a local industrial history.

Product details

• Authors: Stan Henderson
• Publisher: Stanley Henderson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.08.2017
• EAN: 9780995619081
• ISBN: 978-0-9956190-8-1
• No. of pages: 108
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 244 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 292 g
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > General, dictionaries, handbooks; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering