A trawlermans life was hard often up against bad weather rough seas & black frosts although on calm days it was a pleasure to be at sea. In this eventful memoir deep-sea trawlerman James Greene relates his life at sea from his childhood when his father would take him out in some of the worst gales & hurricanes imaginable (and he loved every minute of it!) to his early career as a deckhand learner obtaining his skippers ticket & the many experiences
- both disastrous & otherwise
- to occur throughout his time at sea. During his career he was involved in ship collisions & fires arrested for poaching fired upon by Icelandic gunboats in countless storms & even swept overboard in icy conditions off the Russian coast. The British trawling industry is now a by-gone age & people are beginning to forget the adventures & hardships that characterised this profession. This book seeks to keep the memories of a once great industry alive.