A Merchant Navy Man's Story: An Engineer Officer's Wartime Experiences in the New Zealand Shipping Company, 1939 - 1945 by David Lionel Hodgson. SCARCE.

A Merchant Navy Man's Story: An Engineer Officer's Wartime Experiences in the New Zealand Shipping Company, 1939 - 1945 by David Lionel Hodgson.

Publisher: David Lionel Hodgson, 1998, first edition. SCARCE.

Very good softback, no inscriptions, tiny corner creasing, pages very good, minor marks at some edges. 192 pages, illustrated.

Lionel Hodgson was born in Wellington, he moved to Picton in 1920 when he was 2. In 1933 he moved to Christchurch. In 1938 Lionel Hodgson followed in his father's footsteps and joined the New Zealand Shipping Company as an engineer. Twice torpedoed in the Second World War, he sailed in ships that carried vital cargoes to a beleaguered Britain. This book, written by his son, will be of great interest to seafarers and war historians as well as the general reader.

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