~ gathering this author’s shelf ~
3 bookswrote 1964–19695 years at work
Elis Karlsson was born and grew up on Vårdö, one of the Åland Islands in Finland, at the beginning of the twentieth century, during the period when many of their prosperous and entrepreneurial farmers were engaged in the shipping business, by building, owning and sailing, initially small, wooden, vessels, to trade their produce around the Baltic ports. This culminated in the large fleet of steel-hulled, four-masted commercial vessels which Gustav Eriksson operated out of Mariehamn between the First and Second World War. He spent much of his working life as a seafarer, mostly in sail, rising through the ranks to earn his master’s ticket in 1933. He sailed at first in smaller vessels trading in the Baltic and North Sea, and later in the three-masted barque Penang to Africa and Australia. In 1933 he became First Mate aboard the four-masted steel-hulled Herzogin Cecilie under Captain Sven E…
