Stu’S Sea Stories

Download or read book Stu’S Sea Stories written by Stuart D Landersman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STUS SEA STORIES is the autobiography of Stuart D. Landersman, a retired Navy captain with thirty years of service. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and grew up in Poughkeepsie. He was an Eagle scout, president of his high school class and active in sports, particularly basketball which he played also in college. After college he went into the Navy and served in destroyers, frigates, cruisers and amphibious warfare ships and commanded a number of destroyers. He had thirty months of combat action in the Viet Nam conflict including duty on the staff of Commander Seventh Fleet. He had a tour of duty as aide to the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, attended the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval War College and National War College and has a Masters degree and a Master Mariners license. After retiring from the Navy he worked for the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, served as a Convoy Commodore and taught shiphandling in simulators. He has written a number of articles on naval matters and has published a novel; SHELLBACK. He lives in Coronado, California.