Charles McGuinness wrote two books about his life. The first of which was Sailor of Fortune, which runs from his birth in 1893 into the 1930s. That book is reproduced here. I have not completed the conversion of the book to web format, and only the first 19 of its 26 chapters are available at this point. But what a tale it tells in those chapters!
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: A Wild Gosling Flies From Home
Chapter 2: “Scuttling” the Pilgrim
Chapter 3: Shipwrecked in the Pacific
Chapter 4: Pearl-Fishing in the South Seas
Chapter 5: A Comedy of Errors, with Some Tragedy
Chapter 6: An Encounter with the Venetian Police
Chapter 7: In the British Navy
Chapter 8: The Elusive Germans
Chapter 9: A Lion’s Mouthful
Chapter 10: A Liquor Expedition to Pemba
Chapter 11: Tragedy of the Magellan
Chapter 12: Chinese Pirates and a Romance
Chapter 13: A Peep in Ireland
Chapter 14: Frank Carty Escapes From Derry Jail
Chapter 15: A Fiasco in Glasgow
Chapter 16: The Fight on the Dunes
Chapter 17: Imprisonment and Escape
Chapter 18: Summoned to Dublin by Collins. German Gun-running
Chapter 19: Gun-Running for the Irish Army
(The rest of the book is in progress!)