The Moonraker Mutiny [Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Antony Trew (Author)

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Publication Date: November 30, 2007

A tired old freighter, the Moonraker, is homeward bound from Freemantle to Mauritius. Haunted by his past, Captain Stone seeks solace in day-dreams and the gin bottle in the seclusion of his cabin. His pretty niece, Susie, flirts nervously with Australian passage worker Hank Casey and Italian mate Carlo Frascatti growls and grumbles at the motley crew. Then the calm of a humdrum voyage is shattered when the radio operator picks up the warning of a cyclone ahead. The panic-stricken crew turns on their captain and abandons ship. Those left behind now begin a desperate struggle to keep the battered hulk afloat as a small coaster and an ocean salvage tug are each determined to profit from the Mooraker's disaster.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Anthony Trew served in the South African Navy and the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean, South Atlantic and the Western Approaches and was awarded the DSC. He died in 1996. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Ulverscroft Soundings Ltd; Unabridged edition (November 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1845596684
• ISBN-13: 978-1845596682
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Moonraker Mutiny, January 9, 2006

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This review is from: The Moonraker Mutiny (Hardcover)

Read this book in Paperback in 1977 while working night watch as a Radio Telegraph Operator in the Coast Guard. I really enjoyed reading about what it might be like to ship on a Foreign "Flag of Convience" ship. The Ship Moonraker was doomed when it Sailed from Fremantle, Aus. for Mauritus Island with general Cargo. The Skipper an alcoholic and had fallen from grace in the British Maritime due to abandoning a ship that was still seaworthy in the past. After losing the Main Engine and Generator in a Cyclone and most of the Crew leaves the ship in a life boat, the Capt. is left with his daughter, the stewart, and a passage worker and hopes to redeem himself with the British Maritime buy trying to rig up sails on the cargo mast and sail the ship to port. When I signed on a Singapore Flag Freighter 2 years later, I found that some of these foreign flag ships could be in pretty shabby condition, but I got the radio room organized and it was in good shape before I left the ship.