A Quaker at Sea
Paul Newman is captivated by a Quaker adventure story
It is the ‘Great Depression’. Your father’s Scarborough high street business has gone bust. You are fifteen years old and must leave your Quaker school. You are offered an apprenticeship in the merchant navy, although no one in your family has a history of going to sea, and you travel down to Tilbury with a one way ticket to the high seas.
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