Tramp steamers. I’m talking the fantasy, not the reality. I'll get to the contest in a moment.
Based on various reasons, I’ve always romanticized the Tramp Steamer. I dream about what it must have been like to travel the world in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, under a flag of convenience, making exotic ports of call, mixing with a multi-national crew speaking a strange patois of languages. The creative writer in me fancies running guns to the loyalists in Spain and to Ethiopia, transporting...
Tramp Steamers
Based on various reasons, I’ve always romanticized the Tramp Steamer. I dream about what it must have been like to travel the world in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, under a flag of convenience, making exotic ports of call, mixing with a multi-national crew speaking a strange patois of languages. The creative writer in me fancies running guns to the loyalists in Spain and to Ethiopia, transporting...
Tramp Steamers