Master Mariner
A Life Under Way
Nonfiction, Sports, Water Sports, Boating, Reference & Language, Transportation, Ships & Shipbuilding, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Capt. Philip Rentell | ISBN: | 9781574093575 |
| Publisher: | Sheridan House | Publication: | June 26, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Sheridan House | Language: | English |
| Author: | Capt. Philip Rentell |
| ISBN: | 9781574093575 |
| Publisher: | Sheridan House |
| Publication: | June 26, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Sheridan House |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
