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Hit the Deck! : A Memoir of an Apprentice Boy

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These incredible memoirs began in 1899 by 15 year-old Gaither "Steve" Stevens soon after he joined the Navy as an Apprentice Boy. It was a different world and a different Navy. His extraordinary experiences were captured in a typed manuscript kept safe and unpublished until now. In these writings, you'll find adventures of a lifetime highlighting encounters with a grizzly bear, bar fights, a train robbery, murder, boxing, fiestas, abduction as a sex slave, turtle races, wild shipmates, an Eskimo prostitute, and other savory scenes. Gaither's chronicles of fellow "blue-jackets" and places he visited are wonderous, humorous, and heart-warming, which he wrote from the innocence and naivety of a young man. This wild rollercoaster reveals life in a nearly forgotten time that produced some of the Navy's finest men.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781982079888
  • ISBN-10: 1982079886
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: December 2017
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.74 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.05 pounds
  • Page Count: 356

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