At the age of 19, he apprenticed aboard the "Moshulu", joining the ship in Belfast in 1938 and sailing to Port Lincoln in Australia in 82 days with a load of ballast stone, a good passage for a windjammer.
He apprenticed aboard the "Moshulu", joining the ship in Belfast in 1938 and sailing to Port Lincoln in Australia in 82 days with a load of ballast stone, a good passage for a windjammer. This was at the age of 19.