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Sir David William Bone MBE (22 June 1874[1] – 17 May 1959)[2] was a Scottish Commodore and author of nautical fiction.[3][4][5][6] His work includes The Brassbounder about a brassbounder,[4] a young apprentice on a British Merchant ship.[7] It was included as a recommendation in Literary Taste: How to Form It, a long essay with recommended readings written by Arnold Bennett. Brassbounder is "a classic of the squaresail era".[8]

Bone received the Coronation Medal from King George VI in 1937 for his long association with the Merchant Navy.[3] He was also appointed a CBE in 1943.[3]

Bone was born in Abbotsford Place in Glasgow, Scotland.[5] His father, David Drummond Bone (1841–1911) was a prominent newspaper publisher in Glasgow[9] and his great-grandfather was a boyhood companion of Robert Burns.[3] Elizabeth Millar Crawford (1847–1886) was his mother. His brothers included the journalist James Bone and artist Muirhead Bone who illustrated some of David's books, including Merchantmen-at-Arms.[10][3] Bone studied at Partick Academy.[3]

Bone's career at sea began when he apprenticed at 15 on the City of Florence, "an old-time square-rigger". He also served on windjammers in Australia, with Anchor Line, and on a troop ship during the Boer War.[5] Bone captained the SS Tuscania from New York on its first trip to Glasgow.[11]

Bibliography

• The Brassbounder (1910) by David W Bone
• Broken Stowage by David W Bone (1915), a collection of short stories
• Merchantmen-at-arms; the British merchants' service in the war by David W Bone (1919)[10]
• The Lookoutman by David W Bone (1923)
• Capstan Bars by David W Bone (1931)
• Merchantmen Rearmed (1949)
• The Queerfella by David W Bone (1952)[4]
• Landfall at Sunset; the life of a contented sailor by David W Bone (1955)

References

External links

• Works by David Bone at Project Gutenberg

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