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Voyage to Somewhere

di Sloan Wilson

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From the bestselling author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, a World War II novel that is as thrilling as it is true to life  Hoping to draw a nice, lengthy shore duty after two years at sea, Lieutenant Barton is instead told that he is being sent right back out, this time as captain of a supply ship sailing from California to New Guinea and stopping at every small island in between. Homesick for his wife, he has no choice but to accept the assignment and a crew of twenty-six landlubbers whose last names all begin with W. Their first load of cargo? Pineapples destined for Hawaii. Life aboard the one-hundred-eighty-foot SV-126 is never dull. When Barton isn't battling gale-force winds and monstrous waves, he is coping with seasick sailors and budding rivalries that threaten to turn mutinous. Hanging over the ship like a storm cloud is the knowledge that the world is at war and the enemy is never far away. Whether Lieutenant Barton and his crew are fighting torpedoes and typhoons or writing letters to loved ones, Voyage to Somewhere offers a unique and page-turning perspective on what the Second World War was really like.… (altro)
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Sloan Wilson wrote three novels about his personal experiences in the Coast Guard during WWII. In this first book Lieutenant Barton thought he was heading for a cushy office job after spending two years at sea during WWII. Instead, without even seeing his family, he was immediately assigned to command a small supply vessel. This new but untried ship would sail from California to New Guinea and stop at various islands along the way picking up and delivering assorted supplies. Anxious to get his first orders, he was chagrined when he learned they would be sailing to Hawaii...to deliver canned pineapple.

Learning about the first cargo may have been better than meeting his crew. Of the twenty-six sailors aboard, only five had been to sea. As soon as they left port, training commenced and so did an alarming amount of seasickness. During the next year his crew would experience a lot of monotony as they waited to be loaded, to be unloaded, and to receive orders. But it wasn't all monotony, the sailors also experienced torpedoes, typhoons, heroism and burial at sea. ( )
  clue | Aug 30, 2018 |
Not for the non-nautical afficionado, but if you like ships and realistic sea stories, you will enjoy this book. It's based on Sloan's WW II experiences at sea.

Lt. Barton is assigned to a new small supply ship bound for the New Guinea theater in the South Pacific. They are soon hauling such innocuous cargos as pineapples to Hawaii and then candy bars to assorted islands then "burial supplies" and thousands of crosses to an island called Okinawa.

Wilson nicely conveys the tedium of the war as well as the viciousness of being in a small ship during a typhoon. ( )
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From the bestselling author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, a World War II novel that is as thrilling as it is true to life  Hoping to draw a nice, lengthy shore duty after two years at sea, Lieutenant Barton is instead told that he is being sent right back out, this time as captain of a supply ship sailing from California to New Guinea and stopping at every small island in between. Homesick for his wife, he has no choice but to accept the assignment and a crew of twenty-six landlubbers whose last names all begin with W. Their first load of cargo? Pineapples destined for Hawaii. Life aboard the one-hundred-eighty-foot SV-126 is never dull. When Barton isn't battling gale-force winds and monstrous waves, he is coping with seasick sailors and budding rivalries that threaten to turn mutinous. Hanging over the ship like a storm cloud is the knowledge that the world is at war and the enemy is never far away. Whether Lieutenant Barton and his crew are fighting torpedoes and typhoons or writing letters to loved ones, Voyage to Somewhere offers a unique and page-turning perspective on what the Second World War was really like.

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