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The Voyage of the Rose City : An Adventure at Sea by Moynihan, John is a travel available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Voyage of the Rose City : An Adventure at Sea about?
**A gripping, beautifully told story of a young man’s coming-of-age at sea**** ** When John Moynihan decided to ship out in the Merchant Marine during the summer of his junior year at Wesleyan University, his father, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, was not enthusiastic: As a young man, before joining the U.S. Navy, Pat Moynihan had worked the New York City docks and knew what his son would encounter. However, John’s mother, Elizabeth, an avid sailor, found the idea of an adventure at sea exciting and set out to help him get his Seaman’s Papers. When John was sworn in, he was given one piece of advice: to not tell the crew that his father was a United States senator.The job ticket read “forty-five days from Camden, New Jersey, to the Mediterranean on the* Rose City,*” a supertanker. As the ship sailed the orders changed, and forty-five days became four months across the equator, around Africa, across the Indian Ocean, and up to Japan—a far more perilous voyage than John or his mother had imagined. The physical labor was grueling, and outdated machinery aboard the ship, including broken radar, jeopardized the lives of the crew. They passed through the Straits of Malacca three times,
Who reads The Voyage of the Rose City : An Adventure at Sea?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Moynihan, John
- Publisher
- Spiegel & Grau 11-01-2011
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781299183759
- Category
- travel
- Subjects
- Memoir, Adventure, Military
- Rating
- 3.45 / 5 (74 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14