“Tramps and Ladies: My Early Years in Steamers” by James Bisset

Edges foxed, cloth foxing, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket edge worn with tears and chips, rubbed, foxing, wear. Solid hardcover.

Second volume of memoirs by Sir James Bisset “takes Sir James from his decision to change to steamships, as the ocean-going sailing ships began to disappear, to his position as Second Officer on the Cunard liner, Carpathia. On all kinds of ships, including the vital but unsightly colliers, he found a home at sea … Sir James has many stories to tell, but none more dramatic than his eyewitness account of the foundering of the Titanic, as the Carpathia came to the rescue on that fateful night and morning when the supremacy of the sea was challenged.”