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'Home from the sea'
Bos'n Gus

'I love to be a sailor' Harry Lauder 1918
How 'Bos'n Gus' survived being torpedoed by U Boat - 100
U Boat99

and the Battle at Gallipoli, World War One

Gus

Bos'n Ture Alfvegren Lt. Oscar Pihlack Wireless Officer A. Beynon Kapitanleutnant von Loe
Merchant Ships U.S.S.'Lake Yahara' T.S.S.'Lake Michigan U-Boat 100

merchant marine emblem

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

his 40 years at sea to a young boy

author and Gus

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 + excerpts from the War Diary of

1st Wireless Officer

Austin Reginald Beynon

'From Anzac to Gallipoli',

Swedish and British Log Books

plus Bos'n Gus's favorite yarns and chanties and 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.

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

sail ship bark steam ships

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

TSS Lake Michigan

includes the story of how the T.S.S. 'Lake Michigan was

torpedoed on April 16, 1918 by U-100 commanded by Kapitanleutnant Freiherr von Löe

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' beginning 12th February 1915, when the T.S.S. 'Lake Michigan' on trooping duty set sail from Gower arriving back in Liverpool on the 25th June, 1915 returning to sea again Oct. 1915 arriving back in Cardiff 8th February 1916. This diary covers the invasion at Gallipoli and the day by day activities aboard ship, battles and landings through the final evacuation of all troops, 9th Jan. 1916.

Gus

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

Certificate book

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

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swedish

'Home from the sea'

'Bos'n Gus'

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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

$29.95 + Shipping & Handling

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