Wireless (radio) has a long tradition at sea. If you’re an avid reader, you might enjoy some of these books about maritime radio and radio officers.
- One Hundred Years of Maritime Radio by W D Goodwin
- Blackwater by Harold Lawrence Tredree (set aboard the SS NORMANDIER)
- Deep Sea Sparks – a Canadian Girl in the Norwegian Merchant Navy by Olive J Carroll
- Dots, Dashes and Spindrift by Dan Williams
- Fated by Charlie Gregory (ex R/O GKR, O/C GNF, Radio Surveyor Cardiff SRIO)
- Ferry Destiny by Dan Williams
- Life Aboard a Wartime Liberty Ship by Ian M Malcolm
- Memories of a Sea Gipsy by Derek Peters
- QTC – I Have a Message for You by “Sparks” (Ray Redwood)
- SOS TO THE RESCUE by Karl Baarslag [title subsequently changed to “Famous Sea Rescues”]
- Sparks at Sea by R W Chandler
- Sparks in the Parks: by W Hutcherson
- Through Salt Sprayed Eyes by Robert Welsh
- To Catch a Shadow by Leon Wortman
- The Wireless Officer by Percy Westerman
- Watchers of the Waves: a history of British Coast Radio Stations
- Wireless at Sea, The First Fifty Years
- History of The Radio Officer in the British Merchant Navy And on Deep-Sea Trawlers;
- CQ-GTZM – Diary of a Maritime Radio Officer
*Lagniappe: (LAN-yap) “A little something extra.”
