Hammered Ship-Shape: The young life of Clyde Lovely

Herbert Clyde Lovely, or Clyde, as he was known, started his apprenticeship in the Merchant Navy at 14 in 1906. He would write about his adventures in a fictionalised account of his first voyage in the 1935 book, Hammered Ship-Shape, in which he would circumnavigate the globe.

Re-published, ninety years later, with additional information about the real first voyage, this book explores what life was like as a teenage apprentice, under sail, and proudly able to call himself, a Cape Horner.