Paul Mann left Poole Grammar School to serve by mistake with 42 Commando. After the Marines he worked in Toronto as an assistant accountant in a bank and left to join the British India Steam Navigation Company where he sailed in many different ships. Once in an oil tanker which circumnavigated the world, and towards the end of his spell at sea, in the Sir Galahad** a Landing Ship Logistic, where life was idyllic. The ship visited exotic ports: the British Virgin Islands, Borneo; and a Bangkok before the tourists arrived. While based in the Far East the ship anchored off tropical beaches while the troops played war games in the jungle.

In educational cruise ships Paul grew to loathe cocktail parties and ritual dining and it had him escaping to collect tickets on a chain ferry that clanked a three minute transit from Sandbanks to Shell Bay in Dorset. There he was the usherette who never got to see the show for Shell Bay was the gateway to a notorious nudist beach.

Paul now lives in Sussex.

His writing has won prizes and has appeared in numerous publications including the Royal Marines Historical Society’s Sheet Anchor, Southern Arts, the Manchester Evening News, Nautical Magazine, Gay Mens Press, Third House, The Marine Society’s The Seafarer…

**The Sir Galahad was sunk as a war grave in the Falkland Islands













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