Historical information

The entire passbook is written in Swedish. It was used in 1946 and 1947, while Allan Quinn was working on the Ariston. Allan visited Sweden many times, and eventually learnt the language.

Significance

This passbook belonged to Allan Charles Quinn and is part of a collection of letters and photograph depicting aspects of life at sea for a young man in the era immediately following World War II.

Physical description

A small blue book, containing six pages held together with six staples in the spine. Some of the pages have pale green pages of information glued on them.

Inscriptions & markings

Front: (indecipherable) 13 (handwritten in blue ink) / MOTBOK / FOR (printed) / (indecipherable) ALLAN QUINN (handwritten in blue ink) / GOTEBORG / ALBERTZ BOKTRYCKERI / 1938 (printed).
Diagonally across the cover ANVAND DRAGSEDEL is printed in red.
In the top right hand corner is a paragraph of writing in Swedish.