Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} A Seaman's Selection of Great Sea Stories by Alan Villiers A Seaman's Selection of Great Sea Stories by Alan Villiers. Our systems have detected unusual traffic activity from your network. Please complete this reCAPTCHA to demonstrate that it's you making the requests and not a robot. If you are having trouble seeing or completing this challenge, this page may help. If you continue to experience issues, you can contact JSTOR support. Block Reference: #a9b55f90-c26a-11eb-8556-572f283dbbde VID: #(null) IP: 188.246.226.140 Date and time: Mon, 31 May 2021 23:48:13 GMT. Alan Villiers. This article does not contain any citations or references. Please improve this article by adding a reference. For information about how to add references, see Template:Citation. Alan Villiers aboard the Grace Harwar in 1929. Captain Alan John Villiers (23 September 1903 – 3 March 1982) was an author, adventurer, photographer and Master Mariner. Born in Melbourne, Australia, Villiers first went to sea at age 15 and sailed all the world's oceans on board traditionally rigged vessels, including the full-rigged ship Joseph Conrad . He commanded square-rigged ships for films, including Moby Dick and Billy Budd . He also commanded the Mayflower II on its voyage from the United Kingdom to the United States. [1] Villiers wrote 25 books, and served as the Chairman of the Society for Nautical Research, a Trustee of the National Maritime Museum, and Governor of the Cutty Sark Preservation Society. He was awarded the British Distinguished Service Cross as a Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve during World War II. Contents. Early history [ edit | edit source ] Alan John Villiers was the second son of Australian poet and union leader Leon Joseph Villiers. The young Villiers grew up on the docks watching the merchant ships come in and out of the Port of Melbourne and longed for the day on which he too could sail out to sea. Leaving home at the age of 15, he joined the barque Rothesay Bay as an apprentice. The Rothesay Bay operated in the Tasman Sea, trading between Australia and New Zealand. Villiers was a natural seaman. He learned quickly and gained the respect of his shipmates. An accident on board the barque Lawhill beached Villiers in 1922, by then a seasoned Able seaman. He sought employment as a journalist at the Hobart Mercury newspaper in Tasmania while he recovered from his wounds. Writer and adventurer [ edit | edit source ] The call of the sea was strong, and soon Villiers was back at sea when the great explorer and whaler Carl Anton Larsen and his whaling factory ship, the Sir James Clark Ross came to port with five whale chasers in tow in late 1923. His accounts of the trip would eventually be published as Whaling in the Frozen South . Named for the Antarctica explorer James Clark Ross, the Ross was the largest whale factory ship in the world, weighing in at 12,000 tons. She was headed for the southern Ross Sea, the last whale stronghold left. Villiers writes: "We had caught 228, most of them blues, the biggest over 100 feet long. These yielded 17,000 barrels of oil; we had hoped for at least 40,000, with luck 60,000." Villiers' passage on board the Herzogin Cecile in 1927 would result in his publication of Falmouth for Orders. Through it he met the de Cloux family, who later became his partners in the barque Parma . He wrote By Way of Cape Horn after his harrowing experiences on board the Grace Harwar in 1929. The full-rigged ship Grace Harwar was beautiful as the "wind in her rigging called imperiously as she lay at the pier at Wallaroo" . As Villiers stood on the dock, a wharf laborer warned "Don't ship out in her! She's a killer." The warning would prove true, as Villiers' friend Ronald Walker was lost by the time Grace Harwar made Ireland. More than 40 years old at the time, the ship had barnacles and algae growing along her waterline. "Dirty bottoms make slow ships, and slow ships make hard passages." Villiers had a desire to document the great sailing ships before it was too late, and Grace was one of the last working full-riggers. With a small ill-paid crew and no need for coal, such vessels undercut steam ships, and maybe 20 ships were still involved in the trade. The ill-fated voyage took 138 days, the Grace the last of the fleet for the year. The voyage was filmed in both movie (6,000 feet) and still form, serving as a record of significant images of that period. Delta Productions, Hollywood, California has the original audio recordings and the 16MM film footage obtained from Lt. CMNDR,Dwight Stanley Long (The Fighting Lady) Last of the Great Seadogs, Square Riggers of the Past originally as an Armchair Adventures lecture series at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. He showed it as a motion picture with Alan narrating circa 1976. Delta has archived this rare glimpse of history with cinematography by Alan Villiers. (Delta Productions and "Square Riggers of the Past" are represented by Getty Images, New York, New York. Ship owner and circumnavigator [ edit | edit source ] Villiers reunited with the de Cloux family in 1931, becoming a partner with them in the four-masted barque Parma . Continuing in the grain trade, he proved an able shiphandler. In 1932 he won the unofficial "grain race" between the ships of the trade, arriving in 103 days despite broaching in a gale. In 1933, he made it in 83 days. After selling his shares back to the de Cloux family, Villiers went on to purchase the Georg Stage in 1934. A full rigged sailing ship of 400 tons, originally built in 1882 by Burmeister & Wain in Copenhagen, Denmark, she was employed as a sailing school ship by Stiftelsen Georg Stages Minde. Saving her from the scrapyard, Villiers renamed her the Joseph Conrad , after the author of The N***** of the 'Narcissus' , Typhoon , and The Shadow-Line , who was also an accomplished seaman. A sail training pioneer, Villiers circumnavigated the globe with an amateur crew. He used the unique environment of the sea to build character and discipline in his young crew and, with his contemporaries Irving and Exy Johnson, he helped form the modern concept of sail training. It is used not to teach youth for a life at sea, but to use the sea to teach youth for life. Returning almost two years later, Villiers sold the Joseph Conrad to George Huntington Hartford. He published two books of his adventures, Cruise of the "Conrad" and Stormalong . The Joseph Conrad is maintained and operated as a museum ship at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut, USA, where she continues to educate the youth of today in the rich history of the age of sail. World War II [ edit | edit source ] A LCI(L) during the Invasion of Sicily - 1943. With the outbreak of World War II, Villiers was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve in 1940. He served in Operation Dynamo at Dunkirk; as Stukas dived in on the weary troops, a great variety of British vessels evacuated the troops across the Channel. Villiers was assigned to a convoy of 24 LCI(L)'s, or Landing craft, Infantry (Large). Ordered to deliver them across the Atlantic, with a 40 percent loss rate expected, Villiers got all but one safely across. He commanded "flights" of LCI(L)'s on D-Day in the Battle of Normandy, the Invasion of Sicily, and the Burma Campaign in the Pacific. By the end of the War, Villiers had been promoted to Commander, awarded the British Distinguished Service Cross, and made a Commander of the Portuguese Order of St. James of the Sword for his gallant conduct. Later years [ edit | edit source ] Married in 1940 to his second wife Nancie, Villiers settled in Oxford, England, and continued to be active in sailing and writing. He was the Captain of the Mayflower II in her 1957 maiden voyage across the Atlantic, 337 years after the original Mayflower , and beating her predecessor's time of 67 days by 13 days. He has been involved in almost every large historical sailing ship still in existence including the Balclutha , the USCGC Eagle , the Falls of Clyde , the Gazela , the Sagres II , and would also prove instrumental in the restoration of the Star of India . Cadets at the Outward Bound Sea School in Wales remember him as skipper of their training ship Warspite . He was also involved in the creation of the HM Bark Endeavour replica [ citation needed ] and advised on the 1962 MGM movie Mutiny on the Bounty . Villiers was a regular contributor to the National Geographic Magazine throughout the 1950s and 1960s. A J Villers produced a travel lecture film, Last of the Great Sea Dogs , which ran at the Dorothy Chandler pavilion in 1976. The film contains 16MM color, filmography of his adventures. There is a digital restored master of the performance with an audio track, narrated by A J Villers. Archived with Delta Productions, Los Angeles, Getty Images, N.Y.,New York. [ citation needed ] Villiers served as Chairman of the Society for Nautical Research, a Trustee of the National Maritime Museum, and Governor of the Cutty Sark Preservation Society. He died on 3 March 1982. In 2010, the Society for Nautical Research, the Naval Review, and the Britannia Naval Research Association jointly established the annual Alan Villiers Memorial Lecture at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. [2] A Seaman's Selection of Great Sea Stories by Alan Villiers. Mosquitoes by William Faulkner New York: Dell Laurel, 1965 (but possibly a later printing) (Dell Edition/Dell Laurel, serial no. 5836.) Paperback. Cover design by Ken Longtemps. DELL LAUREL SERIES (DELL PUBLISHING CO., INC.) 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Saturday, August 20, 2005. Villiers, Alan. Alan John Villiers spent the majority of his life on the ocean and his love and respect of the sea shines through in all his works. Born in Melbourne in 1903, Villiers left school at the age of fifteen to 'go to sea' and made numerous journeys to ports all over the world. His travels took him to nearly every ocean on earth and many times around the notorious Cape of Good Hope and the treacherous Cape Horn. Alan spent a brief soujourn as a journalist in Hobart, but the sea was soon to lure him back again, when in 1923 he set sail with the first Norwegian whalers to the Antarctic. These adventures of course became the basis for his hugely successful Whalers of the Midnight Sun , but this was not published until 1934. This was the first of his works for children and over the years, Villiers continued to write for both children and adults publishing a total of 38 volumes, eight of which were for children. Villiers' main inspiration for his stories came from from his own life, which from his books, must have been a fascinating one, he also wrote of historic events and great sailors before him. His experiences racing from Australia to England in 1927 in the Herzogin Cecilie against the Beatrice formed the basis of Falmouth for Orders: The story of a sailing race around Cape Horn and his love of history and battles at sea inspired such works as The Battle of Trafalgar . Falmouth for Orders (1929), is the story of the clipper grain race from Australia to England between the four masted barques - Herzegin Cecilie and the Beatrice in 1928. Alan boarded the Herzegin Cecilie in Port Lincoln, South Australia and they reached Falmouth in England, 114 days later. He was later to record the journey of the four masted grain barque, the Parma along the same route in 1932. Grain Race tells this tale as a day by day account of the Parma carrying 5000 tonnes of wheat from Australia to Falmouth, arriving in just 103 days. The square-rigged sailing ships of old were a great love of Villiers' life and he spent many years sailing around the world and becoming an expert in their handling. So much so that his skills were often called upon by movie makers, for example, in the re-enactment of the Pilgrims journey to America on the Mayflower . The New Mayflower (1959), describes this voyage and brings a sense of what the journey must have been like all those years before. Give Me A Ship To Sail also tells the story of The Mayflower journey, and describes Villiers' adventures sailing the Pequod replica for John Huston's film Moby Dick . Way of a Ship (1953), also tells the story of these great sailing ships of the past, 'Being some account of the ultimate development of the ocean going square-rigged sailing vessel and the manner of her handling, her voyage making, her personnel, her economics, her performance, and her end'. Sadly, Alan's ambition of captaining the replica of the Endeavour and retracing the voyages of Captain Cook were never realised, for Villiers died in 1982, in Oxford, having lived in England for many years. His respect for Cook as a sailor however was expressed through his book Captain James Cook (1967?), this was a biographical account of his life and travels, illustrated by numerous maps and black and white drawings. Villiers also collaborated with other great nautical writers and sailors to produce certain volumes, including Henri Picard, to write of the great bounty ships of France. These tell the story of the great sailing ships of the French merchant marine which sailed between 1870 and 1920. Subsidised by the French people and its parliament as a national asset, The Bounty Ships of France: The Story of the French Cape Horn Sailing Ships tells the story of these three, four and five masted ships. Captain Alan Villiers. Villiers' travels took him to virtually every ocean on earth, which inspired him to produce his Oceans of the World Series . This included Wild Ocean - the story of the Atlantic Ocean and the men who sailed it - a geographical and historical account of the voyages and adventures on the Atlantic ocean, beginning with Christopher Columbus. It contains photographs and drawings and information about the men and women who explored the Atlantic, the pirates, the whalers, the shipwrecks and the two world wars. The Coral Sea is a 'history of explorations, outlaws, desperados, runaway whalemen, beachcombers, treacherous wooders, blackbirders and missionaries' . It contains maps drawn by Stephen J. Voorhies and numerous historic photographs, accompanying those of the author. The Western Oceans is also a geographical and historic account of such master seamen as the Phoenicians, the Vikings and Christopher Columbus. It contains stories of the Spanish Main , the Roanoke mystery, the Jamestown story, the Mayflowers ' travels, of privateers, pirates, slavers, whalemen, fishermen, the packet ships, the Mary Celeste and the two world wars. Monsoon Seas (1952) is the story of the Indian Ocean with maps and photographs and tells of 'exploration, battles, shipwrecks and a history of the Indian Ocean as the great spice seaway between Australia, South/East Asia, India and Africa' . Author blurb from The Coral Sea : Born at Melbourne, Australia in 1903, Alan Villiers went to sea when he was fifteen years of age as a cadet in the halfdeck of the barque Rothesay Bay , in the Tasman Sea trade. He was before the mast in the barque James Craig , four-masted barques Belland , Lawhill , Herzegin Cecilie , full-rigged ship Grace Harwar , and the schooner Hawk . He saw service with the Australian Commonwealth Government Line; was a member of a pioneer modern whaling voyage to the Antarctic; ran the four-masted barque Parma in the Australian grain trade from 1931 to 1934; sailed the Joseph Conrad around the world in 1934-36; sailed with the Arabs in deep-sea and coastal dhows, 1938-39; joined the British Navy early in 1940 and saw war service in the Mediterranean, the Normandy landings, in Burma, Java, and Indo-China; and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC). Villiers was a man with a great love of life and living, having travelled all over the world. As the above blurb indicates Alan was awarded the DSC for bravery and excellence and travelled in a wide variety of vessels including Arab dhows, square riggers, World War II landing craft and in the nuclear ship Savannah . Sons of Sinbad: The great tradition of Arab seamanship in the Indian Ocean is an account of Villiers travels with the Arabs in the Red Sea around the coast of Africa and Arabia to Zanzibar and Tanganyika. It is the story of the great pearl fishers of the Persian Gulf, the life of the ship masters, and of mariners and merchants of Kuwait. His 1930 publication By Way of Cape Horn tells the story of the voyage of the Grace Harwar , to make a motion picture record of life aboard one of the last full rigged deep sea sailing ships. It includes photographs by Villiers and also Ronald Gregory Walker who was killed during the voyage. The book is dedicated 'To the memory of Roland Walker' and contains the following words, 'written about two years before he was buried from the poop of the Finnish full-rigged ship Grace Harwar, on the road to Cape Horn' . Villiers also had a great love of youth and of sharing his adventures with them, not only through his books but also his life. In 1934, Villiers bought the sqaure-rigged training ship the George Stage , he eventually renamed it the Joseph Conrad and spent the following years sailing around the world with school boys as his crew. The Cruise of the Conrad (1955), describes some of these adventures, which were no doubt truly memorable for all those involved. The Joseph Conrad , a ship of 212 tons, spent 3 years cruising the world from 1934 to 1936, visiting such places as the East Indies, the South Seas, and becoming the last of the full rigged sailing ships to travel around Cape Horn. The Cruise of the Conrad includes numerous photographs, a glossary, a list of crew members, extracts from the log book, charts and plans. Stormalong: The story of a boys voyage around the world in a full-rigged ship is another children's book telling the adventures of the boys on board the Joseph Conrad . It is illustrated by James Fuller with photographs by Villiers and is the story of two of the cadets, nicknamed Stormalong and Hardcase. Making of a Sailor (1938) is also the story of both the George Stage and the Joseph Conrad in photographs. It includes 200 photographs of the 'methods employed on board in the making of youthful sailors'! Whalers of the Midnight Sun is highly praised as one of the greatest adventure stories produced by an Australian, featuring the unconquerable ocean in a leading role. Although first published in 1934, it wasn't until its re-release in Australia in 1949 that it won the Children's Book Council award for the Best Australian Children's Book of the Year. It is the story of three teenagers gaining work on the first ever whaling expedition to the Antarctic. A younger brother of one stows away and therefore also joins in the adventures. This is an extraordinary book of survival against the bleakest odds, with nature at her most powerful and cruel. For me, who just cannot get enough clothes on in winter! - The thought of walking the ice in Antarctica or plunging into the ocean, or standing in such icey winds, is beyond all belief that anyone even thinks of doing such things - let alone survives! It is a powerful book, one that modern day thoughts of saving the whale must be set aside for, as it is gruesome and shocking. Whalers of the Midnight Sun is the children's version of the 1925 Whalers in the Frozen South , which also tells the story of the 1923/24 Norwegian whaling expedition to the Antarctic, featuring Alan's own photographs as illustrations. Whalers of the Midnight Sun is also unique in that the illustrations by Charles Pont are woodcuts. Even in the 1930's this was a dying art and is almost unheard of today. Illustrations of the different whales and the equipment are to scale and pictures of the landscape and the ships are detailed and accurate. The dark nature of the woodcuts, in their eerie black and white add to the atmosphere of the story, to the overall mood, the harsh conditions, and the men's discontentment. Saxby (1969, p. 173) comments, 'The reader turns from this powerful story with the conviction that it is not the leaving of life that matters, but its living - and here at last is a theme worth presenting to children.' List of Works for Children 1934, Whalers of the Midnight Sun , (illus. by Charles Pont), Bles, London, UK. (and Scribner, New York, NY). First published in Australia in 1949 by Angus & Robertson and reprinted in 1964 (illus. by James Fuller). 1937, Stormalong ,Scribner, New York, NY. (and Routledge, London, UK, 1938). 1937, The Cruise of the 'Conrad' , University of London Press, London, UK. 1939, Joey Goes To Sea , Scribner, New York, NY (illus. by Victor Dowling), 1953, Pilot Pete , Scribner, New York, NY. (and Museum Press, London, UK) (illus. by H. T. Caldwell) 1953, And Not to Yield , Hodder & Stoughton, London, UK (illustrated by Jean Main and David Cobb) 1959, The New Mayflower , Scribner, New York, NY. (and Brockhampton, Leicester, UK). 1963, The Battle of Trafalgar , Macmillan, New York, NY. Further Reading 1929, Falmouth for Orders 1930, By Way of Cape Horn , (First published in the US in 1952 by Scribners of New York) 1931, Sea Dogs of Today 1931, Vanished Fleets Sea stories of ships and men of old Van Diemans' land'. The history of Hobart and Tasmanian ships at sea - the forward gives thanks to all those involved in Villiers' year long search for information. (Reprinted in 1974 and 1975). c.1934, The Last of the Wind Ships c.1934, The Sea in Ships: The story of a sailing ships voyage round Cape Horn - told through Alan's photographs and featuring a plan of a four masted Barque c.1938, Grain Race 1940, The Sons of Sinbad: The great tradition of Arab seamanship in the Indian Ocean , (First US edition produced in 1969 by Scribners in New York). 1949, The Coral Sea c.1949, The Set of the Sails - featuring photographs by the author, telling the stories of wind ship vayages on the Rothesay Bay and Bellands. Included in the book are tales of the Sir J C Ross , Garce Harwar and the Joseph Conrad c.1951, The Quest of the Schooner 'Argus': A voyage to the Banks and Greenland - the story of the Portuguese dory fisherman off the Greenland coast 1952, The Monsoon Seas: The Indian Ocean 1953, The Way of a Ship 1953, The Cutty Sark: Last of a Glorious Era - Contains an introduction by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh c.1956, Posted Missing: The story of ships lost without trace in recent times , (Revised edition published in 1974). c.1957, The Western Ocean - the story of the North Atlantic c.1957, Wild Ocean c.1958, The Story of Louis de Rochemont's Windjammer 'The story of the Norwegian windjammer Christian Radich, its crew of young cadets and the film it inspired'. (Includes School of the Sea and Sailing a Square-Rigger) c.1959, Give me a Ship to Sail c. 1962, Of Ships and Men c.1967, Captain James Cook c.1971, The War with Cape Horn - featuring maps and illustrations by Adrian Small. This is 'the complete account of the voyages of the great spare-riggers fighting to round the Horn', bringing one hundred years of sailing and trading up to date c.1972, The Bounty Ships of France (with Henri Picard) (Date unknown) A Voyage to the South Seas - illustrated by Geoffrey C. Ingleton (Date unknown) Ocean: Man's Conquest of the Sea - Which features black and white photographs, maps and illustrations of sea going journeys from ancient to modern times (Date unknown) The Navigators (Date unknown) The Last Grain Race (Date unknown) A Seaman's Selection of Great Sea Stories (Date unknown) Great Sea Stories See Also http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/nav.00500100400e http://www.aandc.org/collections/alan_villiers_text.html. posted by Sarah | 11:32 AM. 1 Comments: Villiers, Alan is a fun title to find. It just amused me when I came across it on my search for Educational Cards in these blogs. Amazing what you can find and where you end up. Alan Villiers. Alan Villiers was a distinguished sailor, author and photographer. His work vividly records the period of early 20th century maritime history. Villiers's work vividly records the period of early 20th century maritime history when merchant sailing vessels or ‘tall ships’ were in rapid decline. He was appointed a Trustee of the National Maritime Museum in 1948 and co-founded the Museum's collection of historic photographs. Villiers’s early days at sea. Villiers was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1903, and first went to sea at 15 as an apprentice on board the Rothesay Bay . This barque was one of the few sailing vessels that still traded there, operating in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand. Villiers loved the life, learned quickly and was soon an 'able seaman', crewing on various sailing vessels until he had an accident on board the Lawhill – an old British four-masted barque. Temporarily injured and unable to work as a seaman, he became a journalist. Reporting on whaling in Antarctica. Before long, Villiers had the chance to go to sea again. When a Norwegian whaling fleet stopped in Hobart on their way to the Ross Sea, he seized the opportunity and joined them as a reporter on the first modern whaling expedition to Antarctica. He sent his stories back using the ship's radio and they were sold around the world. He later expanded them to produce his book Whaling in the Frozen South . Falmouth for Orders. In 1927 Villiers secured passage to Falmouth on board the Herzogin Cecilie under Ruben de Cloux. The Herzogin had been challenged to a race by the Swedish barque Beatrice . De Cloux's vessel won the race in a passage that took 96 days. The book that Villiers wrote during the passage, Falmouth for Orders was a great success. Tragedy on the Grace Harwar. After a few months in Europe, Villiers returned to Tasmania. He and his friend and fellow journalist, Ronald Walker, decided to make a documentary film to record the last of the great sailing ships. They signed on with the Grace Harwar , the last full-rigger in the Australian trade, and sailed for England. The voyage was harrowing. Walker was killed in an accident and the second mate had a breakdown as a result. Villiers none the less recorded the voyage on 6000 feet of film and later in his book By Way of Cape Horn . Sons of Sinbad. In 1938 he began an examination of sailing culture in the Middle East and spent 18 months on board the Arab dhow The Triumph of Righteousness, sailing from Kuwait to Zanzibar and back. He recorded his experience in Sons of Sinbad . The project ended prematurely owing to the outbreak of the Second World War. During the war, Villiers commanded landing ships and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. He married in 1940 and settled in Oxford. He continued to travel, write and enthuse about ships and the sea until his death in 1982.