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Warren Lewis: The Soldier Sailor

Warren Lewis: The Soldier Sailor In the years immediately after his retirement from the Royal Army Service Corps on 21 December 1932, Captain Warren ‘Warnie’ Lewis expended most of his energy compiling the Lewis Papers, an extensive family archive that, by almost any measure, is an exceptional accomplishment. Shortly after finishing this massive yet pleasurable undertaking, Warnie turned to an even more delightful activity: sailing the waterways in and around Oxford and Cambridge on the Bosphorus, a small cabin cruiser he had specially built, therein realizing a life-long passion for ships and boats and reaching back to the childhood worlds of Animal Land and Boxen (shared with his younger brother), upon whose waters the first Bosphorus sailed. From 1936 until the outbreak of World War II, Warnie spent many days on his second Bosphorus, enjoying countless hours of relative freedom and personal satisfaction. This essay explores Warnie's days aboard his ‘ditchcrawler’, primarily through the lens of the eight essays he published in The Motor Boat and Yachting magazine in the late 1930s. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Inklings Studies Edinburgh University Press

Warren Lewis: The Soldier Sailor

King, Don W.
Journal of Inklings Studies , Volume 11 (1): 12 – Apr 1, 2021
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In the years immediately after his retirement from the Royal Army Service Corps on 21 December 1932, Captain Warren ‘Warnie’ Lewis expended most of his energy compiling the Lewis Papers, an extensive family archive that, by almost any measure, is an exceptional accomplishment. Shortly after finishing this massive yet pleasurable undertaking, Warnie turned to an even more delightful activity: sailing the waterways in and around Oxford and Cambridge on the Bosphorus, a small cabin cruiser he had specially built, therein realizing a life-long passion for ships and boats and reaching back to the childhood worlds of Animal Land and Boxen (shared with his younger brother), upon whose waters the first Bosphorus sailed. From 1936 until the outbreak of World War II, Warnie spent many days on his second Bosphorus, enjoying countless hours of relative freedom and personal satisfaction. This essay explores Warnie's days aboard his ‘ditchcrawler’, primarily through the lens of the eight essays he published in The Motor Boat and Yachting magazine in the late 1930s.

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Journal of Inklings Studies – Edinburgh University Press

Published: Apr 1, 2021

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