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hope the stories are absorbing please leave a review or comment on amazon if you are inclined amazon s algorithms feed on them and push the titles higher in the search ranks best wishes to you and your good lady regards harry reply miguel says january 22 2025 at 9 25 am hello harry i m miguel from northern spain i bought your three merchant navy books last summer and it s the best money i ve spent in years i m enjoying them very very much i ve finished the first one and i m already reading the second in my humble opinion you are a great writer can t wait to buy the fourth book of your seagoing memories i understand that you re working on it at this moment thank you very much for writing such beautiful books kind regards miguel reply harry nicholson says january 22 2025 at 2 09 pm hello miguel your note came on a morning of wet and chilled mist and immediately the sun came out thank you for the heartening comments for a writer it is wonderful when a reader takes the trouble to get in touch i ve been working in the garden but this afternoon i ll work on the next chapter set in calcutta 1960 best wishes harry nicholson reply philosopherspeedy4b171f1a22 says january 23 2025 at 7 30 am thank you very much for your kind comment harry i wish you fair winds and following seas miguel mark preston says july 7 2024 at 7 20 pm harry i have just finished reading the three books you wrote of your sailing experiences from a young entrant into the merchant navy with great pleasure i have had no experience of your profession at all but my step father had been in the merchant navy as a young man and i at the age of 13 and 14 sailed with my family out to new zealand and back p o orient s orcades on the way out shaw savill s akaroa ex royal mail s wonderful amazon on the way back which gave me a taste of the last days of the liners which has stayed with me all these years my step father was a marine electrician but i am ashamed to say that i remember none of the companies he sailed with except right at the end the jamaica producer the banana boat that did the run out to the west indes he mentioned once watts watts as well he had been in the malta convoys during ww 2 and had been lucky enough to survive those although i believe his ship had been been torpedoed and had seen the sinking of the hms barham i enjoyed your account of your journeys and experiences and i liked your observations on nature in the places that you visited but it is ship board life that i found particularly interesting the fun times and the tense times of bad weather one hears much about but the boredom the heat and hardship is rarely mentioned in other accounts i have read you also touch on the loneliness and the failed relationships of sea farers my step father s first marriage failed because he was just so often not there thank you for bring that all alive another interest of mine is the fall of singapore and i look forward to reading your account of the ss vyner brooke escaping the japanese i am a great fan of singapore and malaysia and am lucky enough to have been in kuching for the opening of the brookes family museum of the history of sarawak a couple of years back as a friend was involved in curating the exhibits i should say that i also want to visit hartlepool as well now that i have read your memoires i understand that they have done a good job of restoring the old town and recapturing its marine history enjoy your well earned retirement i am a younger retiree than you and love every day of it and thank you again for your eloquence and for your memories mark preston bern switzerland reply harry nicholson says july 9 2024 at 2 26 pm hello mark it s a delight to read your response to the memoirs and to learn a lttle of your step father s career we are in a cottage in cumbria this week so i m late in reply the internet is hit and miss here i m pleased you ll venture into the lt mann memoir i felt it was too vital a story to be lost i ve lodged the original foolscap with the australian memorial archive as it seems so important the next and final seagoing memoir stands at the halfway point i hope to complete it before next spring after that i may return to historical fiction who knows thanks again for getting in touch it is a delight to hear from a reader regards harry nicholson reply john trotter says september 25 2022 at 12 18 pm hello harry just downloaded green linnet and couldn t wait to read hokkaido the noo great title doubters should chat to the motomachi bar girls any of whom will tell them that auld lang syne is an ancient japanese folk song thanks for the book john ex ro 68 92 ps meandering through your blog i saw a mention of lythe my uncle tine local bobby in loftus and staithes born and bred was riding down lythe bank and saw a ghost come out of the cottage on the right hand side cross the road and disappear spooky reply harry nicholson says september 25 2022 at 12 59 pm i m pleased you have the linnet that spooky cottage on lythe bank might be the gatehouse to mulgrave castle if not then it will be the cottages at the bottom leading into sandsend my wife s family lived at sandsend in 18th 19thc when the place was busy burning alum shale for the dye industry now it is all costly holiday homes our daughter s father in law looks after the tiny church there reply john trotter says september 25 2022 at 2 13 pm thanks harry think it s the lodge passed it many times but never stopped fond memories of the hart inn in sandsend sorry i m unfamiliar with this mode of comms christopher jenkins says may 27 2022 at 3 00 pm really enjoyed your books harry i too was a sparky pmg 1 not one of those mrgc s gtzm imrc redifon gka thence silver line could relate to your experiences so eloquently recalled tks om chris reply harry nicholson says may 27 2022 at 7 37 pm thank you chris i am busy with book 3 and so your post has spurred me on i don t have a title for the current book yet it is heartening to have a response from a reader writing can be such a solitary pursuit if ever you are inclined please leave a brief review note on the book s amazon page amazon s algorithms are much stimulated by a new review and tend to promote the title i hope all is well with you best wishes harry reply stephen says october 17 2023 at 9 06 am hi harry i m interested in your radio days at sea do you discuss the equipment you used in any great detail harry nicholson says october 17 2023 at 2 20 pm hello stephen where i discuss the radio gear it is usually from an operational point i rarely go into detail about circuitry you may well be interested in such matters but my memory is not detailed i touch on propagation matters occasionally the heaviside layers and such fault finding particularly on the radar is gone into sometimes even so a couple of readers who are not of my background have found the technical sections too much for them and they skip those i do what i can to preserve some flavour of those days and pleasure to the reader harry nicholson says september 26 2022 at 7 04 pm hello christopher i ve an anthology green linnet on amazon free until 29th it has sea stories etc it is here a chance to glimpse the curious stories that i write reply charlie brown says march 17 2022 at 5 00 am hello harry i just finished your two memoir of the sea books and really enjoyed them love your writing style i came from a small rural town had no money and joined the u s navy at 17 i spent 9 months in radio school code 22 wpm and in 1963 was assigned to the uss norris dd859 a destroyer my experience as a radioman was quite similar to yours as i went thru the suez canal red sea refueled in aden and up the persian gulf to iran and many other ports your accounts of liberty shore leave in various ports brought back many memories as a young sailor without much money if you think storms at sea are bad in a large merchant ship try it in a tin can about 300 ft long 30 ft wide boy do they roll thanks so much for two very fine books i went on to a very fine career with the government and am now retired charlie reply harry nicholson says march 17 2022 at 4 48 pm hello charlie i am delighted that you were moved to write thank you for the affirmation writing can be a solitary pursuit so it is heatwarming to hear from a reader and also good to hear of your own career after seagoing i took work in early and primitive video tape recorders in commercial tv studios that career lasted 30 years and closed with me as engineer in charge of europe s largest drama studio i m retired now and happy writing making art enamels and growing veg for the kitchen near whitby in this blessed corner of north yorkshire i ve just issued a revised version of an anthology green linnet short stories etc now i m back to vol 3 of the sea memoir for which i don t yet have a title if you are ever inclined to post a brief review or comments on the memoirs on amazon please feel free amazon s algorithm feeds hungrily on new reviews and promotes the book to readers it deems interested take good care in these strange times regards harry reply harry nicholson says september 26 2022 at 7 05 pm hello charlie i ve a free anthology green linnet free for download until 29th after a digital struggle i ve managed to upload the proper version of green linnet the ebook anthology is free to download until thursday a chance to glimpse the curious stories that i write reply theodore pitsios says january 15 2022 at 10 22 pm hello harry i have just finished reading both of your merchant marine memoirs as a fellow ex mariner of a somewhat later vintage i sailed as an engineer 1961 67 i d like to say how much i enjoyed your books and how much of your account rang true to my own experiences my first ship was an american built liberty and my last a canadian built liberty also with turbine and diesel propelled ships in between when stopped sailing i started a ship repair company which kept me in touch with the world of ships and ships crews i must say we have been fortunate to sail at the time we did when things were relatively peaceful the working conditions not as harsh as during the previous generation and our stay in port was more than the few hours of the present day now in retirement i ve published three books in which most of the content is derived from the sea experience best wishes for a healthy and gratifying new year all the best theodore pitsios reply harry nicholson says january 16 2022 at 10 23 am splendid to hear from you theodore i m under the weather with covid this last week so you have cheered me up yes we had the best of times in our seafaring i could do it all again i went from the radio room into early tv studio engineering and ops and did well ending up in charge of the biggest drama studio in europe life at sea in our formative years did equip us well for the future i m pleased to know you are still writing it is a stimulating pursuit that probes the creative mind and keeps it young once i complete my series of memoir i d like to return to historical fiction saga i miss tom fleck and his adventures keep safe and well harry reply paul says december 13 2021 at 4 40 pm i really enjoyed both your seagoing memoirs harry i spent just five years at sea in the mid seventies as an engineer with bp but so much of your experience chimes with mine though runs ashore were few and far between on a tanker it was great to discover that the dreadnought kit wasn t a figment of my memory either no one i ve mentioned it to believes it existed when i left the sea i went to the upstream oil business and a few years later was running some of these cities in the sea that will soon be history all the challenges of a ship without the propeller many now being scrapped in hartlepool of course reply harry nicholson says december 14 2021 at 2 58 pm thank you paul writing is a solitary pursuit and so it brings a rush of warmth to have a response from a reader book 3 is two thirds complete and may be in print by the summer if all goes well re the rigs we ll be driving to hartlepool this weekend so i ll look out for what is berthed in graythorpe drydock they keep busy brocklebanks often used that drydock it was delight to catch the bus for home every night best wishes harry nicholson sleights whitby reply clive kaine says march 26 2021 at 11 04 pm hello harry i have just finished reading both of your merchant navy memoirs as a fellow r o of a somewhat later vintage 1971 81 i d like to say how much i enjoyed your books and how much of your account rang true to my own experiences 10 years or so later i left the sea in 1981 because i could see the writing on the wall for the british merchant fleet and i count myself lucky to have enjoyed the last few years of the golden age of british shipping i look forward to the next instalment of your memoir and wish you all the best 73 om tu and see u reply harry nicholson says march 27 2021 at 9 22 am hello clive thank you for the positive comments on the memoirs your message has lifted my spirits i m encouraged to continue with the third book which is up to chapter nine so far the writing of it is not as straightforward as book one i must try to make it work as a stand alone and at the same time give enough backstory for it to be a sensible sequel to the first two books i left the sea to plunge into the beginnings of itv in london where other sparks had gone before our ability to work alone and not waste resources was sought after it seemed sensible at the time but there has been nothing to equal my days at sea as you say it was the golden age reply sherry marr says december 25 2020 at 2 05 am harry i just looked back and saw you visited my blog how lovely to see you congratulations on your books good for you to be producing something during these stressful days i applaud you stay safe kiddo reply harry nicholson says january 1 2021 at 2 47 pm thank you sherry may the new year be kind to you and yours reply jim muir ex port line 1960 1965 says may 1 2020 at 12 39 am harry there are a number comments on the ship and lt mann you mention in your post on ships nostalgia on the net under the heading sandakan death camps regards jim muir reply harry nicholson says may 1 2020 at 8 17 am thank you jim i ll investigate those the manuscript for one jump ahead is on the point of publication but no doubt new sources will arise best wishes harry reply hilary says april 27 2020 at 1 53 pm harry i am writing on behalf of john harrison a 101 year old academic soas london whose field is south asia he has just finished the best of days with great enjoyment and interest and was wondering if you have published the second half of your memoirs of life in the merchant navy in volume article or programme form his own first studies were of the portuguese as shippers around the african coast persian gulf goa cylon indonesia and china based upon work in the portuguese archives from damao to macao reply harry nicholson says april 27 2020 at 5 58 pm hello hil...