From his days as a cadet on the aging training ship Worcester, Captain Philip Rentell's forty-year career has spanned the world's oceans and a huge variety of seagoing experience. He served as a junior officer on numerous freighters and liners, as the navigator of cross-Channel hovercraft, and then as first officer of the Cunard flagship QE2, on which he went to the South Atlantic with over 3,500 British troops and a volunteer crew of 650 during the Falklands War of 1982. SInce leaving Cunard in 1990. he has been and English Channel and North Sea pilot, and has commanded a succession of cruise ships.

About the Author
Philip Rentell is a Fellow of the Nautical Institute and a Younger Brother at Trinity House, and he has a law degree from the Open University. He is currently master of the classic cruise liner Saga Ruby.


Book Information
ISBN 9781906266134
Author Philip Rentell
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint Sheridan House
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield