Collision Course

About the Book

Steve, a young Merchant Navy Officer, has a new girl friend Janet. They decide to go on holiday together, Steve books the holiday to the Greek Island of Zakynthos, on the holiday they go on a cruise round the Greek Islands close to them. Romance between, Steve and Janet, blossoms for them. Arriving home Steve finds a letter instructing him to join a ship in Tilbury Docks, the ship takes Steve across the Atlantic to the USA. In Central Park New York, Steve gets attacked, but not hurt. Steve is told that he is to be transferred to another ship in Boston, joining the other ship he is promoted, and steamed back to England. He is given a few days leave at home, and takes Janet to a hotel in Chester. In Chester they have a great time, with a few saucy moments.

Recalled to join his ship in Tilbury, while waiting for the ship to leave, a party is held, nurses, come onto the ship. Steve gets to dance and dally with Jeanie an attractive Irish Nurse. The ship leaves and steams again across the Atlantic, whilst the ship was loading cargo in the US, John, a young officer is hurt, and a replacement is sent out from England. The ship is described steaming through the Panama Canal, then up to California. Steve and Jim, the new officer, go to visit the liner Queen Mary moored in San Francisco. The ship encounters a thick fog, in which the ship narrowly misses a collisions. On his return home on leave, Steve gets engaged to Janet, buying her an engagement ring. Next voyage crossing the Atlantic, the ship runs into severe storns, despite changing course many times, they run into a hurricane. In the storn thinking that the worst is over, Steve is blown off a ladder, falls and is badly injured. He ends up in hospital in Jamaica.

In the end, it comes to a very happy conclusion for Steve and Janet.

About the Author

Peter Embley was born in Gateshead Northumberland in 1935. He followed in his father's footsteps, by joining the Merchant Navy as an apprentice in 1951. His father was a captain in the Merchant Navy, and was awarded the OBE. Peter has spent much of his career travelling around the world, as an officer on cargo and passenger liners. During his voyages, he experienced many cultures, and has witnessed many amazing sights.

After ten years in the Merchant Navy, Peter left to pursue an entirely different career as a computer systems analyst. Peter overcame any challenges that, he faced in his newjob, and continued to work with computers until his retirement.

Peter was inspired to write his first book, his memoirs "A Life on the Ocean wave and on the Shore" whilst recovering from a severe car accident. In the accident his wife Patricia died, he has recovered, and remarried Margaret, his new wife, he is now fully fit. He moved from Maghull to Ormskirk in Lancashire, where he lives with Margaret.

This is Peter's first novel of fiction.

Collision Course is a romantic story, with many seaboard incidents.