The glamorous Arctic whaling and the amazing life of the whale hunters in their fight to wrest a fortune from the pitiless Northern Sea and treacherous ice flow made the quarterdeck of a whaler the acme of their ambition to the boys of Hull, Whitby and Dundee, of Peterhead and Aberdeen.
Author: Basil Lubbock
Hardback: 484 pages
SKU: P0267
About the Author
Lubbock had been yachting since at least 1905 and after the war he became more involved. He became the first Commodore of the Hamble River Sailing Club in 1919.
He sailed extensively himself and worked with Alfred Westmacott to develop a new yacht design, the Hamble One Design Class.