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Informationen zum Autor Ian Tew was born into a seafaring family in 1943. He learnt to sail by the age of seven, and went on to become chief officer with the Indo-China Steam Navugation Companty and Bank Line before joining Selco Salvage in 1974. After many years in salvage he went ashore in 1991 to run a small business, and then in 1997-2001 hew sailed around the world in the yacht IndependentFreedom. Ian's account of his round-the-world voyage was published as Sailing in Grandfather's Wake. Klappentext This gripping memoir by salvage Captain Ian Tew recounts the danger and glory that salvage crews face every day as fight to save huge ships from distress, whether the 'casualty' ships be on fire, filled with combustible fluids, or in the midst of a war zone. Zusammenfassung This gripping memoir by salvage Captain Ian Tew recounts the danger and glory that salvage crews face every day as fight to save huge ships from distress! whether the 'casualty' ships be on fire! filled with combustible fluids! or in the midst of a war zone. Inhaltsverzeichnis ForewordAcknowledgementsProloguePart I - Salvage Apprenticeships1. Singapore2. Friedrich Engels3. Nienburg4. DamarPart II - Salvaliant5. Oilfield work and a rough passage6. Sophie B: One that got away7. Barge Salvage report, Iran8. Volosko: A difficult tow9. A day off the coast of India10. Majmaa II and Pacificoeverett: A leper colony in the Laccadives11. Universal King: First ship in the new port of Mogadishu12. Mahavel: Failing on Europa Island13. Ville de Mahebourg: A first in the Southern Ocean14. Citta di Savona: Collision in Singapore Harbour15. Barge Pastee: Looting and riots in ColomboPart III - Salvanguard16. Mare: 'Please I follow you to Aden'17. Global Mariner: 10,000 tons of grain for the starving18. Safina-e-Najam: Dangerous reefs in the South China Sea19. Jane Stove: A sleepless nightPart IV - Salviscount20. Actuality: Storm in the Bristol Channel21. Intermac 600: Adrift off the Lizard22. Last independent command Part V - Salvage Master23. San Juan: Salvage in Egypt24. Gay Fidelity: Ablaze and sinking in the Red Sea25. Blue Express: Patched up in Trincomalee26. Wind Enterprise: Aground in the Persian Gulf27. Al Ahood: War zone...
