Put Not Your Trust In Princes

From Bannockburn to Burdekin, by Sea by Denis Gallagher This is a book about the sea, and those who sailed in a word of seafarers and shipping that has much changed. It is written by a man who did it all, from a deck apprentice to a shipowner. The Liverpool shipping company of Alfred Holts, more affectionately known as Blue Funnel or ‘The China’, was once the largest general cargo…