The voyage of the Rose City : an adventure at sea / John Moynihan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moynihan, John McC. (John McCloskey)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moynihan, John McC. (John McCloskey)--Travel.

Moynihan, John McC.

Moynihan, John McC. (John McCloskey).

Merchant mariners--United States--Biography.

Merchant mariners.

Travel.

United States.

Seafaring life.

Rose City (Oil tanker).

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2011.

Summary:

When John Moynihan decided to ship out in the Merchant Marine during the summer of his junior year, his father, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, was not enthusiastic, but his mother, an avid sailor, liked the idea. John was urged not to tell the crew that his father was a senator. The job ticket read "45 days from Camden, N.J., to the Mediterranean on the Rose City," a supertanker. But the orders changed, and 45 days became four months--across the equator, around Africa, across the Indian Ocean, and up to Japan--a far more perilous voyage than anyone had imagined. The physical labor was grueling, and outdated equipment jeopardized the lives of the crew. But it was also the trip of a lifetime: John reveled in the natural world around him and gradually proved himself to the old timers. A talented artist, he drew and kept a journal that he turned into his senior thesis. After John died in his early forties, his mother found the manuscript and decided to publish it.--From publisher description.

ISBN:

9780812982435

0812982436

9780679643814

0679643818

OCLC:

697261613