"aye, Aye, Sir", The Autobiography Of A Stoker [1938]
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A very rare copy of hardback book in VGC, dust jacket, unclipped, rubbed top and bottom. Interesting presentation sticker on ffl. The autobiography Aye Aye Sir, written under the pseudonym 'Clinker Knocker', is a classic example of this form of naval-memoir genre. The name 'Clinker Knocker' was attributed to stokers by seamen during the age of coal firing when stokers used a nine foot iron bar called a slice to 'knock' the burnt clinker off the fire bars when cleaning the fire.29 This so called autobiography is clearly a fictional account written to conform to how a stoker was expected to behave, rather than any attempt to present an accurate picture of the challenges faced by stokers on the lower-deck. The reader is subjected to an endless account of drunkenness, fighting, and ill-discipline and led to believe that it typified the average stoker.
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