On Great Waters (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from On Great WatersIT is not felt that any apology is needed in presenting to the public a simple narrative of the sea and the men who use it.Those who lived the life of hardship and stress such as is depicted inadequately in the following pages, were amongst the men who carried food to hungry mouths during almost five critical years in the world's history, when an unscrupulous enemy had counted on national hunger as its chiefest ally.Presently, when values are adjusted, and the great perspective of the European War is correctly laid out before the eyes of the world, it will be seen that without the British Merchant Service a different tale had been told.All through those years of inhumanity the Red Ensign kept the seas undaunted. More than fifteen thousand of such men as are feebly pictured within the pages of this book laid down their lives, far from the braying of trumpets and the Haunting of silken banners, in order that the swift-weaving shuttles of the Empire's looms might play their part in the con struction of the great fabric of victory.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.