Master Mariner

A Life Under Way

Capt. Philip Rentell

From his days as a cadet on the aging training ship Worcester, Captain Philip Rentell's forty-year career has spanned the world's oceans and a huge variety of seagoing experience. He served as a junior officer on numerous freighters and liners, as the navigator of cross-Channel hovercraft, and then as first officer of the Cunard flagship QE2, on which he went to the South Atlantic with over 3,500 British troops and a volunteer crew of 650 during the Falklands War of 1982. SInce leaving Cunard in 1990. he has been and English Channel and North Sea pilot, and has commanded a succession of cruise ships.

Globe Pequot / Sheridan House

Pages: 400 • Trim: 5¼ x 8¼

978-1-906266-13-4 • Paperback • June 2009 • $15.95 • (£11.99)

978-1-57409-357-5 • eBook • June 2009 • $9.99 • (£7.99)

Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Boating, Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / General

Master Mariner

A Life Under Way

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Summary

From his days as a cadet on the aging training ship Worcester, Captain Philip Rentell's forty-year career has spanned the world's oceans and a huge variety of seagoing experience. He served as a junior officer on numerous freighters and liners, as the navigator of cross-Channel hovercraft, and then as first officer of the Cunard flagship QE2, on which he went to the South Atlantic with over 3,500 British troops and a volunteer crew of 650 during the Falklands War of 1982. SInce leaving Cunard in 1990. he has been and English Channel and North Sea pilot, and has commanded a succession of cruise ships.

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Globe Pequot / Sheridan House

Pages: 400 • Trim: 5¼ x 8¼

978-1-906266-13-4 • Paperback • June 2009 • $15.95 • (£11.99)

978-1-57409-357-5 • eBook • June 2009 • $9.99 • (£7.99)

Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Boating, Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / General

Author

Philip Rentell is a Fellow of the Nautical Institute and a Younger Brother at Trinity House, and he has a law degree from the Open University. He is currently master of the classic cruise liner Saga Ruby.

Master Mariner

A Life Under Way

Capt. Philip Rentell

Master Mariner

A Life Under Way

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