[CW] Books about Maritime Radio and Radio Officers

Sun Jul 15 21:51:31 EDT 2018

Since Maritime Radio was one of the first adopters of radio, and of
continuous wave, I am sending this list along as I know some are interested
in maritime history.

Books about
Maritime Radio
and Radio Officers

   -

*One Hundred Years of Maritime Radio
   <http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0851746322/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=amatradieuro-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0851746322>
   <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
   <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
   by W D Goodwin*
   -
*Blackwater
   <http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0000CK168/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=amatradieuro-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B0000CK168>
   <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
   <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
    *
   by Harold Lawrence Tredree
   (set aboard the SS NORMANDIER)
   - *CQ-GTZM* - Diary of a Maritime Radio Officer;
   -
*Deep Sea Sparks - a Canadian Girl in the Norwegian Merchant Navy
   <http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1895590051/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=amatradieuro-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1895590051>
   <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
   <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
    *
   by Olive J Carroll
   -
*Dots, Dashes and Spindrift
   <http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/141208430X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=amatradieuro-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=141208430X>
   <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
   <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
    *
   by Dan Williams
   trafford.com/06-0185
   - *Fated* <http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/fated/2717584>
   a seagoing novel by Charlie Gregory (ex R/O GKR, O/C GNF, Radio Surveyor
   Cardiff SRIO)
   -
*Ferry Destiny
   <http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/142513677X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=amatradieuro-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=142513677X>
   <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
   <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
    *
   by Dan Williams
   trafford.com/06-0185
   -
   - *History of The Radio Officer* in the British Merchant Navy And on
   Deep-Sea Trawlers;
    J. Greenlaw
   - *Life Aboard a Wartime Liberty Ship* by Ian M Malcolm by Amberley
   Publishing <http://www.amberleybooks.com/shop/article_9781445600208/Life>
    in 2010.
   (After leaving the sea, Ian worked at Wick Radio for one year, followed
   by two years at Portishead Radio).
   - *Memories of a Sea Gipsy* by Derek Peters
   - *QTC - I Have a Message for You* by "Sparks" ( Ray Redwood)
   - *RMS St Helena* and the South Atlantic Islands
   Completed in 1999 and published in 2006 by Whittles Publishing of
   Caithness. The books covers the author's years as radio officer aboard the
   two St. Helena's (1979 - 1992). Illustrated with about 75 photographs
   - *SOS TO THE RESCUE* by Karl Baarslag
   [title subsequently changed to "Famous Sea Rescues"]
   - *Sparks at Sea* by R W Chandler
   -
*Sparks in the Parks: The experiences of a Canadian Radio Officer serving
   on the wartime-built deep-sea freighters of the Canadian Merchant Navy
   <http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/096866640X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=amatradieuro-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=096866640X>
   <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
   <https://www.evernote.com/shard/s372/nl/62136874/28741c53-cb6d-45a9-9402-8e102825a98b/?content=#>
*
   by W Hutcherson, a Canadian R/O serving on Canadian built Park ships
   during and after WW2
   - *Through Salt Sprayed Eyes* by Robert Welsh.
   Wartime memoirs of an R/O
   - *To Catch a Shadow*: A Wartime Tale of Espionage and Intrigue From
   Africa to North Russia by Leon Wortman. The book describes in detail the
   lonely life of an OSS agent with R/O background whose missions take him
   behind the lines from Africa
   to Russia. (First Books Library) Leon A. Wortman was a R/O on Murmansk
   convoys ships
   - *Watchers of the Waves*: a history of British Coast Radio Stations
   - *Wireless at Sea*, The First Fifty Years
   - *The Wireless Officer* - by Percy Westerman

*"QRD Snohomish"*
* -- *by Conrad Burns

*"Morse Memories"* -- Spud Roscoe * PDF* https://mega.nz/#!
akV2VSwJ!pqcdjPwAUfygHZhE_SAf-6w5im-MNzoWG73pz2lsD5U *ebook*
https://mega.nz/#!z5MigCDb!F2AhNC-dx0s0VOoISqio2DTSBJiZZC44rATzqmqfOuc

Web Pages

http://radiomarine.org KPH
http://www.gordonmumford.com/radio-02.htm Gordon Mumford author and former
R/O
http://www.marconigraph.com/ Parks Stephenson (historian and subscriber to
this list)
http://www.seefunknetz.de/seefunker/index.html and their famous map (click
on section) http://www.seefunknetz.de/seefunker/homepage/seefunk.htm
    Thanks to  Rolf Marschner and Rainer Brannolte

http://coastradio.intco.biz/coast-radio-station-map.htm  Coast Radio
Station Map of the World
Part of the Coast Radio Stations of the World Website

http://earlyradiohistory.us/

http://coastalradio.org.uk/ Many resources here

This list is no where complete but it is a good start for wandering the web.

73

DR

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