Fill The Cup: Memoirs Part two

This is the second 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, fulfilled it, and went on to a varied life in which he gave command of his ship to a several others, including his wife, caused an international incident, befriended a jazz band, cancelled an Admiral's cocktail party, got strangers to take his ship to countries as far apart as Norway and Malta (often into dangerous places where no sane ma...