On board the SS Cathy bound for India with a full cargo of wheat

In the Persian Gulf with a load of crude oil for western Europe

The oil tanker SS Transbay at the refinery in Texas.

SS Inger in the Panama Canal with a full cargo of raw sugar from Hawaii to Galveston

The Kings Point - in dry dock for hull inspection and repairs

Inspecting the propeller on the SS Kings Point

SS Cathy, entering Panama Canal, eastbound

Locking through the Panama Canal

Men in the hold unloading raw fertilizer into bags in Bhavnagar, India on the SS Our Lady of Peace

The author opening hatches in preparation for loading - on the Cathy

Oil terminal in Port Said, Egypt

Heavy weather, North Pacific

Refueling at Djibouti, French Somaliland

On board SS Cathy, heading home from Japan to New Orleans

Taking a "shipboard shower" on the Ocean Leader, mouth of the Amazon River

Crossing the equator on the SS Marore, taking iron ore to Baltimore (coming from India via the Cape of Good Hope)

SS Cathy - five months at sea - 35 thousand miles - Portland with a full cargo of wheat -- Yokohama --- Vizagapatam and Calcutta, India -- Aden -- Suez Canal -- Lisbon taking on a full cargo of fertilizer -- Suez again -- Djibouti -- unloading at Saigon -- Japan -- Panama Canal -- New Orleans

The John B -- no, not the Sloop John B, but the John B Waterman, flagship of the Waterman Steamship Corporation

In New Orleans, loading cotton bales on the John B, bound for Europe.

Winter, North Atlantic on a good day.

The ore carrier, SS Marore -- leaving Durban, South Africa

Joining the southbound convoy to transit the Suez Canal.