Download or read book Shanghaied written by David Paul Collins and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's real-life experiences on a Liberian-registered merchant ship in the 1950s, this fictionalized memoir tells the story of Jack Sligo, a teenage boy from a loving Boston-Irish family who gets more than he bargained for when he is shanghaied onto a cargo ship after running away from home to find a summer job on a cruise ship.