Posted by Peter Ceresole on February 22, 2010 at 16:49:19 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Here we go again; Best books and why? posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on February 22, 2010 at 15:42:24:
"We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea" tends to come out ahead, with the exception of the pier head jump in Flushing.
Yes. If you've ever been on one of those packets, they come out of the traps at a fair speed and any pier head is well out of jumping range...
But I suspect that this is commander Walker using an ironic phrase to cover his rapid action to get a gangway put back into place as the ship is about to sail, so he can jump ashore. From his Naval experience, if anybody had it, he'd have the personality and the authority to get it done.