FROM THE CAPTAINS TABLE

True Life Tales of a Master Mariner --- A series of short stories set out chronologically and plotting the long career of Master Mariner Gwilym Williams and the colourful characters he met along the way. From his Uncle Jack – ‘California Jack’ as he was known in the Swansea Valley – whose tales of travelling the globe must have acted as a spur to the ambitions of the young Gwilym. Drama is never far away, such as the danger days of the North Atlantic convoys but being Gwilym, there is always humour waiting in the wings. Read, at first hand, the experience of docking the great “Queen Mary”, in New York, without the aid of tugs, when Gwilym served under Cunard’s Captain Donald Sorrel whose feats of seamanship must have been an inspiration for when Gwilym was Master of his own ship in peril on the deep. Finally, in this chronicle of yarns, starting in 1915, fetches up in 1978, when Gwilym at last reveals the secrets of the Captain’s Table.