Hi John,
There is a photograph of McAndrew in the web-site I sent you recently,
http://home.pacifier.com/~rboggs/KIPLING.HTML
it was titled McAndrew And His Engine & taken by Howard Pyle for Scribner's
Magazine in 1894
The CQ CQ CQ function of the web-site may be able to help in identifying the
McAndrew in the photograph, as the website is all about the Merchant Marine,
Richard S. Boggs E-mail address is:[log in to unmask]
failing that the owner recommends contacting the American Merchant Marine
Veterans Association whose web-site is:http://www.ifu.net/~halladay/ammv.htm
their e-mail page for questions such as this
is:http://www.ifu.net/~halladay/email.htm
and the e-mail address to send such questions to is:[log in to unmask]
The web-site & poem were brought to my attention recently by my sister
Eleanor way
up in the Andes in Colombia, so there must be a bit of synchronicity going
on here
that we are not fully aware of. We wish Brandie the very best of luck in
the search
for history of the real McAndrew.
Best wishes & good hunting,
Ron & Veronica
at the Temple of Hidden Peace & Tranquillity in Hong Kong
http://members.xoom.com/TempleGarden/Default.htm
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Quote from Richard S. Boggs home page:
CQ CQ CQ
Many readers have written to ask for information about ships, shipwrecks or
long-lost shipmates. There are more requests than I have time or resources
to research, but each and every one of them is important and nearly all of
them relate to some fascinating event that should be added to our store of
maritime history.
If you have a request for information, and would like to expose it to the
widest range of maritime expertise on the Web, just type CQ in the message
subject line and we will post it here. Your request will remain online until
the page file gets too big, you get an answer, or we get around to cleaning
out the old messages
An excellent source of information and assistance is the American Merchant
Marine Veterans Association. This organization is dedicated to serving the
interests of those gallant mariners without whom our land and sea victories
would have been impossible.
If you wish to respond to a request for information, please reply directly
to the email address of the person requesting that information, with a CC to
us. That way your response will get to the right person quickly and if the
subject is of interest to all readers, you may share it online.
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At 11:25 AM 09/06/1999 +0100, you wrote:Dear Brandie
>I'm afraid I don't know the answer to your question, and none of the
standard biographies suggest one; but I am sending your note to a number of
colleagues,
one of whom may know the answer ! If we turn anything up I will come back to
you.
>
>All good wishes, John Radcliffe, Electronic Editor
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: bmc73
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 12:53 AM
> Subject: Family information
> Hello there! My name is Brandie McAndrews.
Could you please share with me any/all information of the person who
inspired the writing of McAndrew's Hymn. I am currently tracing my family
origin and would appreciate any information that you could provide that
would help further my search.
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