Driving Ambition: Memoirs Part One

This is the first half of the tale of an urchin from the slums of London who had an impossible dream: to command (to 'drive') one of Her Majesty's Ships.
It take us through forty years across the world to the Mediterranean, to the Far East, to the Caribbean, the Pacific Ocean, the USA and Canada, and into the Arctic, through World War Two and the Korean War, a meeting with Marshall Tito, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and glimpses of the oceans of the world, from flat calm to mountainous seas. I...