Mark Morrin: 2 books

Thomas McAndrew is a stoker on the maiden voyage of a Royal Mail Steamer; the biggest and finest to fly the British flag. After a hard winter of industrial unrest the best of men were anxious to join and the pick of Southampton went in her. But Thomas is disturbed by unspoken thoughts of foreboding...

An affectionate tale about Old Red Hook, its once-bustling waterfront and the boatmen that worked New York Bay. The old-time junkmen have salt dreams about getting rich by raising sunken rum from the Hudson during prohibition.