Based on interviews with the crew and captain of a torpedoed tanker who survived nineteen days in a lifeboat in heavy seas and scorching tropical sun--this information is incredibly useful even today.
He resides on Peaks Island, Maine..
Twain is the author of three books: In Peril (with co-author Skip Strong), Ghosts of the Pioneers , and The Complete Guide to Sailing & Seamanship .
He is a former managing editor of Ocean Navigator and an instructor at the Ocean Navigator School of Seamanship.
Twain Braden , an attorney and a licensed 100-ton master, is a delivery captain who has worked aboard scores of vessels.
Born in New York, he is buried in Galveston, Texas.
Banigan was the Third Officer on the SS Robin Moor , the first American vessel sunk by a Nazi torpedo during World War II.
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About the Author: Phil Richards was a writer in New York for many years, and he died in San Jose, California.
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In the words of the authors: "This manual is concerned solely with human lives.
You will find vivid and pertinent information on everything from medical emergencies, thirst, and hunger to weather and morale.
It pulls no punches, and its advice is strident but useful.
The writing in How to Abandon Ship is so clear it has been used in college English composition classes.
Braden used How to Abandon Ship to teach crewmembers fifty years after it was written while sailing the rugged and dangerous Maine coast.
Former schooner captain and author Twain Braden updates this solid and useful advice with a foreword addressing today\'s technology.
It is a gem That can once again be used to Save lives.
How to Abandon Ship was written during World War II to Save the lives of seamen by instilling a commonsense, organized, no-panic clarity to getting off torpedoed ships safely and, perhaps more importantly, surviving later.
Based on interviews with the crew and captain of a torpedoed tanker who survived nineteen days in a lifeboat in heavy seas and scorching tropical sun--this information is incredibly useful even today
