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'I knew that enlistment in the Navy was out of the question, because I had not the faintest hope of passing the eyesight test ... At last, while I was still itching with restlessless, I heard that there was a dearth of wireless operators in the Merchant Service ... I bought Hawkhead's text-book—in those days the classic of wireless telegraphy—and studied it industriously.'