Contents

Introduction
Early Days at Sea
Equipped with radiotelegraph station
Archangel Gabriel - ora pro nobis (pray for us) .
Join the Royal Navy
DHQT de PAFZ QRZ WPA
Sparks what’s going on?
Amusing short Stories from “Bern Radio”/HEB
Through the Suez-Canal with “MT Leuna” 
Lifeboat transmitter
New Years Eve
Adventures of a Sparks
Two short Stories
From a runaway, legionnaire
Night over the Pacific
A “Christmas Gift” = FIRE ON BOARD!
The Whale of the Caribbean Sea
“PCS”  or “PC5”  ?
NOLA
The good old “Gold Franc”, a World currency
Polar bears
“Disaster Hinnerk”
Come and look
Across the Atlantic Ocean
Between the front-line
“Sparks, the Lübbenau is signalling”
Storm in the Bay of Biscay
What ship?
Breakfast with Koralle
Going ashore in Colombo
Piglet
I never knew if it was a genuine distress
Have you summertime?
First voyage
War in our time
Passenger and R/O
cq cq cq de dlcx medico qsq?
A Canary Radio Officer
How German policemen became English sea-men

 



On your carpet…?
Very Humorous Frequencies
Too tidy!
Dramatic hours on the Atlantic
Travelling is always eventful
Hoye el barco senor: TRA-BA-JO TRA-BA-JO
A tricky mission
When a captain gets sick
Radio Amateur
Contaminated area
Telephonist in the air
Duel in the English Channel
A Tragedy
Soccer at Sea
Good-bye at Sea.
Communication problems
General Postmaster (GPM)
In a bad mood
My first trip as an “only” radio officer
SOS on dry land
A special kind of “SEAMANSHIP”
Weathermaid
The sealed letter for the consulate
The Death of Warsaw
An unfortunate misunderstanding
US-Jet/WJUGA approaching Rügen Radio/DHS
Me look see
“Ollenhoff” needs me
Inspection of our radio station
Maritime Salvage
Dots in the Silence Period
Dramatic events
Morse by lamp
The Italian Connection
QRZ WCC
Miracle candles (sparklers).
Cuba
Bath day
“Merry Land”
St. Peter Ording



Storm in a teacup
We would arrive
Without “Sparks”  Captain.
QRA - What’s the name of your ship?
Urgency off the Brazilian Coast
Greetings on Board!
Mayday mayday mayday
Bad luck at the Cape of Good Hope
On our new vessel
Faith, Fatherhood and Fate
A naval review by the Queen
Football in Hamburg
QSD – Your Morse is Inadequate
DAHA DE ...... pse QSP msg fr Carmen
Two consequential weather messages.
Medico - PCH “Scheveningen Radio” gives assistance
Family at sea
Ship with letter “K” on funnel
XXX LECK
Advance
XXX CQ DE
“Old Men”
In a Hurricane
The Lumbago
Preparations and Training
German radio-operating on a fish-steamer “Phoning free of charge - is it worth while?”
A Birthday in Tokyo
Ernst and his bird called “Butje”
Colleagues despite “cold” war
Shipwrecked
...the night before Halifax
The Night I Will Never Forget
On a rock
Coal Dust
A Holiday Relief Job with Twists 

Index
Epilogue