VHS Videos

 

A Day at Sea Aboard the Lane. Victory Video Tape VHS # 3310 Huell Houser ' $15.00
 

 

Books
 

 

Ship Model Booklet. Ron Stahl, $15, #3333. Full-color photographs of 27 finely crafted ship models displayed aboard the S.S. Lane Victory with a brief description and background narrative of each ship.
 

 

The Lane Victory. New edition by Capt. Walter Jaffee, $30, #3130. An update of the 1997 publication  of the history of the last active Victory ship, from construction in 1944 to the present-day living memorial  to merchant seamen. Includes information about the Lane?s use as a movie set as seen in many films  and TV shows.

 

Action in the North Atlantic. Guy Gilpatric, $30, #3324. This book was the inspiration for the Humphrey 
 

Bogart/Raymond Massey movie honoring the contributions of the Merchant Marine in WWII.

 

A Medal for Marigold. Michael Skalley, $8, #3322. From the journal of Captain Robert Skalley. The story of the hospital ship Marigold began in Seattle when the Army converted the liner President Fillmore into a 765 bed sea-going hospital. During WWII she traveled 78,000 miles in the Atlantic and the Pacific.  Though classed as a safe conduct ship with Red Cross markings, she experienced enemy shells, bombs  and mines.

 

 

Patriots and Heroes, vol. 2. Gerald Reminick, $22, #3325. True stories of the U.S. Merchant Marine in WWII 
 

and the men who sailed into the battle zones from Guadalcanal to Normandy, Murmansk to Okinawa.
 

 

Merchant Ships of WWII. Victory Young, $30, #3101. Pictorial documentary of ships built during WWII.

 

 

Merchant Marine Days ? My Life in World War II. David LaMont Lee, $21, #3142. Humorous and exciting recollection of WWII merchant mariners with details as if they happened yesterday.
 

 

Odyssey of a Merchant Mariner. Capt. Peter Chelemedor, $23, #3139. The story outlines Capt. Chelemedor?s adventures that led him to sea, his experiences during WWII and his attempts to find a place to settle down when ready to come ashore.

 

 

The U.S. Merchant Marine at War, 1775-1945. Bruce Felknor, $36, #3321. Little known facts with anecdotes, chronicles and histories create a smooth-flowing account of our oldest, almost forgotten ocean service: USMM and Naval Armed Guard.

 

 

The Ordeal of Convoy NY 119. Charles Dana Gibson, $25, #3118. This book tells the story of a U.S.  Army convoy of seagoing tugs, harbor tugs, yard tankers and barges on a 31-day passage to an English port in 1944. Cited by the U.S. Naval Institute in 1973 as one of the year's significant books on naval history.

 

 

The Homeward Bounder. Floyd Beaver, $16, #3105. A collection of exciting sea stories that are squarely in the tradition of Conrad.
 

 

Convoy Merchant Sailors at War, 1935-1945. Philip Kaplan and Jack Currie, $35, #3143. A beautiful pictorial with accompanying text describing merchant marine action. Includes rare photographs,  paintings and memorabilia.
 

 

Ships of the U.S. Merchant Fleet. Capt. John A. Culver, $17, #3113. Facts and pictures of American  flagships with historical events, names of ship builders and owners, 1939 to 1968 (revised edition).

 

 

The Last Liberty. Capt. Walter Jaffee, $30, #3108. Capt. Jaffee brings us through both lives of the  Jeremiah O?Brien, from her exciting days in WWII to becoming a living memorial.

 

 

Appointment in Normandy. Capt. Walter Jaffee, $30, #3102. The story of  the Liberty ship Jeremiah  O?Brien?s historic voyage back to the beaches of Normandy.

 

 

Burning of the General Slocum. Claude Rust, $11, #3125. The story of one of the most appalling  disasters in maritime history, researched by the author whose grandmother was one of the victims.

 

 

Hog Islanders. Mark H. Goldberg, $20, #3134. The story of an almost forgotten type of merchant  ship, the passenger-cargo liner, built at the Hog Island shipyards of Pennsylvania.

 

 

Sailing West. Carl Marcoux, $16.50, #3340. A must read based on what every maritime service school seaman will associate with his own war time experiences, from hiring hall loud mouths (being sent to the hall in his "sailor suit") to learning what it?s like to be the low man on the totem pole aboard ship. There is the excitement of war at Okinawa with Kamikazes and the mother of all typhoons. As his ship, the Cape Blair, a C-1, circumnavigates the globe with several stops in India and the Middle East, the reader will learn why Great Britain lost control in the area. Many of the incidents are from Carl?s own exploits, from the boredom at Ulithi to  liberty ashore in Manila as he gives his impressions of people and their customs.

 

Veterans PTSD Discussion Group

10 AM Friday mornings

Come on board, ask for George Henning.