Jon - My edition is dated 1938 and Maitland is given an acknowledgement just after the sentence you quote from the Preface (thanks for the Star=Perrey reference!). Some of these good friends have since gone to Fiddler's Green. To their names should be added Mr.Sam Peck, Captains Victor Slocum, Richard Maitland and Mr.R.M.Davids, all former seafarers who have "swallowed the anchor."

Where did they go in the reprint?!

Mick