[CW] Books about Maritime Radio and Radio Officers

Radio K0HB kzerohb at gmail.com
Mon Jul 16 15:14:10 EDT 2018


Here’s another great first-person account of seafaring Radiomen.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004ULPLAY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

73, de Hans, K0HB
Master Chief Radioman, US Navy (Ret)


On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 20:52 D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:

> 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
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> DR
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> <http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/forumdisplay.php?f=365>
> ​​
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-- 
73, de Hans, K0HB
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"Just a boy and his radio"™
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