As an old man Bos'n Ture 'Gus' Alvegren relates

his life at sea  to a young boy

 Ture Alfvegren, born on November 27, 1884 in Wisby, Gotland
    an island off the coast of Sweden
  went to sea at age thirteen

331 pages

+ 146 pictures of sail and steam ships, Swedish and British Log Books

plus much more

 An adventurous story of a Swedish sailor and the challenges

he faced after leaving home at age thirteen. His exploits aboard sail and steam

 ships at the turn of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth 

century and the dangers he encountered as a sailor in his  Merchant Marine

during the First World War.

 'Gus' passes on the meaning of team work, loyalty and duty

in this exciting nautical book.

Replete with 141 nautical photographs and illustrations,

British Board of Trade and Swedish certificate books,

'when ships were made of wood and men of iron'

 Ture ‘Gus’ Alfvegren served as a  merchant seaman from 1897 to 1936. His ship the

T.S.S. Lake Michigan hit a mine in 1916 and was later torpedoed by U-Boat 100 in the

North Atlantic in 1918.

 Enjoy this wonderful story of a man who ‘exemplified the ideal that there is

‘no institution in which a man’s ambition is sooner recognized than in the Naval Services’

From sail to steam

       1894                                           1936  

'Gus' Ture Alfvegren recounts his voyages aboard these vessels:

                                      Brigg ‘Brarr'                            Skou ‘Emma’                                          

               Frigareso  ‘Amsterdam’           Bark ‘M. Roosvall’           

                                 Angfartyget ‘Reserve’              Tyskeany  ‘ Burgermeister Petersen’    

       SS ‘Rotterdam’                         SS ‘Farringford’       

           SS ‘Competitor’                        SS ‘Lord Downshire’    

             SS ‘Wingrove’                           SS ‘Oxonian’                  

                              SS ‘Waiwera’                             SS ‘Teleconia’                                  

             SS ‘Demosthenes’                     TSS ‘Lake Michigan’       

              SS ‘Lake Manitoba’                  SS ‘Burmese Prince’         

SS ‘Celtic Prince'      

See the ships Gus sailed on

Merchant ships

torpedoed on April 16, 1918 by U-100

 with excerpts from the War Diary of 

1st Wireless Officer 

 'From Anzac to Gallipoli'

 Austin Reginald Beynon

an account of the 2 voyages and actions of the T.S.S. 'Lake Michigan'

during during the World War One invasion of Gallipoli in 1915

Bos'n Gus, 2nd row,3rd from left                           British  WW1  Medals      

page from Ture Alfvegren's British Board of Trade

Certificate of Discharge

 Gus's British Certificate Book - TSS 'Lake Michigan'

see all of Gus's Log Books

 'Home from the sea'

Bos'n Gus

Written by  Paul G. and Edith Lyman-Shafiroff

edited by Judith Pow

331  pages
with 146 nautical photographs, sea chanty lyrics,
Swedish and British Board of Trade Certificate Books

ISBN: 9780979428852

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