Chapter 1 The Island of Doom Chapter 2 The Admiral's Blind Eye Chapter 3 'The Governor of Sombrero' Chapter 4 A Peculiar Purser Chapter 5 Dismissed the Service Chapter 6 Politicians' Field-day Chapter 7 Witnesses Galore Chapter 8 Sombrero Revisited Chapter 9 He was lost and is found Chapter 10 To go where he pleases Chapter 11 Epilogue
James Parkyns Derriman retired after a career in journalism and public relations to devote time to historical research and writing, specialising in legal and maritime history. For two decades he undertook part-time research work at The National Archives and elsewhere, for lawyers, academics and authors. His personal interest is in the history of the Looe and Polperro area of Cornwall, renowned for its smuggling and privateering exploits. Marooned, the story of a Cornish seaman, was his first full-length work in this field. Mr Derriman's forebears include RN officers from Napoleonic times onwards, one an admiral. He himself served in the wartime Merchant Navy which he entered as a deck boy after beginning his career as a cub reporter in London and Winchester, Hants. After the war he qualified as a barrister, then resumed his journalistic career in Fleet Street. In 1955 he moved into public relations with the J Walter Thompson Co, becoming an associate director, and later joined the former Charles Barker Group to form a PR consultancy, of which he became joint vice-chairman, retiring after five years as Company Secretary of this large British communications group. In 1973-4 James Derriman was President of the professional body now the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, and he is an honorary vice-president of the European Confederation of Public Relations. He is a Freeman of the City of London. His publications include: Pageantry of the law (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955) Discovering the law (University of London Press, 1962) Public relations in business management (ULP, 1954) Company-investor relations (University of London Press, 1969) The bridge-builders, joint editor (Associated Business Press, 1980) Marooned (Kenneth Mason, 1991) Killigarth: three centuries of a Cornish manor (published by the author, 1994) Chancel Repair Liability - how to research it (Barry Rose, 2005)
"A fascinating book which, like a few novels, is difficult to put down when you have started reading it... thoroughly recommended" Journal of the Cornwall Association of Local Historians "Well researched... and tells an interesting tale." Mariner's Mirror "A curious tale, well told by an ex-journalist and specialist in maritime history." Cornish Guardian "A 'horror story' and a true one." The Naval Review "Once started, the book is difficult to put down... in truth, stranger than fiction." Cornwall Family History Society Journal "Reveals far more of English society and its navy of Napoleonic times than a simple case of cruelty at sea... Recommended for those anxious to see more of the sailor's past world than seamanship, gunnery or the minutiae of shipboard life." The Northern Mariner
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