recommended reading for new Merchant Mariners

Colleges and Universities A-Z Merchant Marine Academy - Kings Point
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<p>Deepdrafts recommended reading list:</p>

<p>Nothing can go wrong - Capt. John H. Kilpack/John D. MacDonald
It didn’t happen on my watch - George C. Murphy
Until the Sea Shall Free Them – Robert Frump
Collisions and their Causes – Capt. Richard A. Cahill
Strandings and their Causes - Capt. Richard A. Cahill
Collision Course: The Classic Story of the Collision of the ANDREA DORIA and the STOCKHOLM - Alvin Moscow
The Battle of the Atlantic - Andrew Williams
Liberty Ship - Sherod Cooper
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 - David McCullough
Sailing on Friday : The Perilous Voyage of America's Merchant Marine - John A. Butler
Heroes In Dungarees: The Story of the American Merchant Marine in World War II - John Bunker
A Careless Word...a Needless Sinking - Arthur R. Moore
The U.S. Merchant Marine at War, 1775-1945 - Bruce L. Felknor
The Forgotten Heroes: The Heroic Story of the United States Merchant Marine - Brian Herbert
Abandoned Convoy...The Full Story Of The Debacle Of Convoy P.Q.-17 – F. O'Flaherty
The Abraham Lincoln of the Sea: The Life of Andrew Furuseth - Arnold Berwick
Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s - Bruce Nelson
Last of the Boom Ships: Oral Histories of the U.S. Merchant Marine 1927-2000 - Jim Whalen
Looking For a Ship – John McPhee
Steaming to Bamboola: The World of a Tramp Freighter – Christopher Buckley
Super Ship - Noel Mostert
The four days of Mayaguez – Roy Rowan
The Last American Sailors: A Wild Ride in the Modern Merchant Marine - Michael R. Rawlins
Longitude - Dava Sobel
Captain James Cook - Richard Hough
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex – Nathaniel Philbrick
Hard On The Wind - Russ Hofvendahl
EAGLE Mutiny - Richard Linnett and Roberto Loiederman
Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock - Thomas Farel Heffernan
The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale - Owen Chase, Thomas Nickerson, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Thomas Philbrick
The PEKING battles Cape Horn – Irving Johnson
Yangtze Patrol: The U.S. Navy in China - RADM Kemp Tolley
The Sand Pebbles – Richard McKenna
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
Typhoon – Joseph Conrad
The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
The Mirror of the Sea – Joseph Conrad
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
The Bounty Trilogy - Charles Nordhoff, James Hall
Typhoon, the Other Enemy: The Third Fleet and the Pacific Storm of December 1944 – Capt. C. Raymond Calhoun USN
The Seaman's Friend: A Treatise on Practical Seamanship – Richard H. Dana
Two Years Before the Mast – Richard H. Dana
The Sea-Wolf – Jack London
Song of the Sirens - Ernest K. Gann
Three Star Fix - Capt. Joseph Jablonski</p>

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<p>It’s time once again for old DD1 to “take departure”.. I’ve got the crew signed on articles and cargo will be completed at 13:00 hrs.. Then it’s off to Honolulu, Guam and the Far East..</p>

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<p>DD1 I wish you calm seas. Have a safe journey!</p>

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<p>Fair Winds & Following Sea DD1. Thanks for posting up a great reading list. Sailing on Friday is an awesome book. Check back in when you're able!</p>

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<p>I would include "Two Years Befor the Mast" by Richard Henry Dana.</p>

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<p>reading is for people who have time!</p>

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<p>2 Samuel 22
:)</p>

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<p>Hey, anothermidn2008, maybe you boys and girls should spend more time reading and less time playing video games.. My job keeps me pretty darned busy, but I always find time to read. Especially books that have to do with my profession. Adios from Apra Harbor, Guam</p>

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<p>haha...
he has a point...
i'm just as guilty as the next kid though...</p>

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<p>History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides</p>

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<p>Read "The Secret Sharer" by Joseph Conrad.
A Second Mate on one of my ships insisted I read this. It's dead-on with the schoolship/academy experience and what can unfold thereafter. It's an enjoyable short read. Conrad's "The Shadow Line" is another short sea-story; very apropo to anyone beginning a nautical career or advancing therein.
Enjoy!</p>

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<p>i dont play any videogames thank you very much. I am not a room rat. I am a gym rat. Between studdying, and working out, there isnt much time in the week for anything else.</p>