

The son of an itinerant worker I attended fourteen different primary schools before we settled for my secondary education and engineering apprenticeship. This was followed by a working lifetime involved in seafaring, as Chief Engineer, Engineering Superintendent, Classification Surveyor, and University Lecturer.
I sailed on paddle steamers, fishing boats, dredges, dry cargo ships, oil tankers, bulk carriers, passenger ships, supply boats and oil rigs.
My writing began as a form of stress relief from the 24/7 pressures of the offshore oil industry. For an hour each day I retreated into the world of my imagination and wrote fiction.
By the time I retired I'd accumulated a fair body of writing, but didn't know if any of it was publishable.
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Stanley David Andrews