| Stand BY-Y-Y to Start Engines |  | Author: Daniel V. Gallery
Publisher: Paperback Library, Inc,. New York
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 2024106
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 192
ASIN: B0007GMBEA
Publication Date: 1967
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Condition: Edition: First Edition; Fair/None, as issued.; Fair cover with no DJ as issued. Cover scuffed, rubbed, soiled, sunned, edgewear. Page edges beginning to darken on edges, inside covers yellowed. First thus, stated Paperback Library Edition; First Printing: May, 1967.
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Reviews from the book's covers May 6, 2007
Ervin Parker (Rockwood, TN)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Stand By-Y-Y to Start Engines
"The Best and saltiest of Admiral Gallery's tales of goings-on in the Navy." -- Inside Books
"GUARANTEED TO KEEP SAILORS, SOLDIERS, OFFICERS WIVES AND ALL CIVILIANS ROLLING WITH LAUGHTER" -- Independent Star News
"Required reading for all seafaring men who like robust, salty humor. Landlubbers are allowed to read it provided they have no stitches from recent operations that are likely to bust loose." -- Onalaska Record-Times
The same superb quality as Now Hear This!... the funniest and most revealing fiction about the U.S. Navy." -- New Castle News
"A Good supply of high-seas hilarity." -- Sioux Falls Argus-Leader
"By the author of Now Hear This! and Clear the Decks STAND BY-Y-Y TO START ENGINES "STARTS OUT ON A FUNNY RIB-SPLITTING NOTE, AND GETS FUNNIER WITH EACH CHAPTER." -- Palm Beach Post Times
"Hilarious tall tales about our present-day Navy.... A truly funny book which moves along a fast pace, except that now and again the reader has to stop and laugh at loud.... A whale of a story." -- Charleston, S.C. News and Courier
"Rousing, robust, hilarious..." -- Bridgeton, N.Y. News
"If you enjoyed NOW HEAR THIS!... You will have a hard time putting this one down... STAND BY-Y-Y TO START ENGINES." -- Shipmate
"THIS NEW ONE REALLY TOPS THEM ALL." -- The Virginia-Pilot
"A HILARIOUS STORY OF LIFE AT SEA..." -- Henry III, News-Republican
"... button-busting laughter... the third side splitting book by Gallery, and his funniest." -- Florida Times-Union
"It is worth reading, particularly for old salts. Even old salts who have never been to sea." -- The Providence Journal
"... riotous adventures..." -- St. Paul Pioneer Press
"... THE SALTIEST AND CERTAINLY THE FUNNIEST WRITER ON WARSHIP LIFE IS REAR ADM. DAN GALLERY..." -- Chicago Tribune
Sea Stories from the very best November 27, 2005
Noah TW Givens (Marietta, Ga. United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Gallery-
The commander that had a "Dirty Tricks Squad"
The commander that earned his anchor by being a "Sailor's" commander.
The commander that actually regarded his men as more than "enlisted". This commander actually listened to the wisdom of experienced seaman.
It was said of Halsey that Halsey was a sailor that was welcome on any ship; at any time; on any sea... the same may be said of Gallery.
Here are tales of Naval Aviation from the Blue Angels to Blue Water Seamen whose names and locations have been changed to protect the innocent(?).... to keep someone from getting a possibly well deserved Court Martial in the midst of extremely plausible circumstances. Anyone that has been in the real Navy around the real shipboard duties knows in their heart of hearts that these adventures are just too good to have been simply made up.
And ANOTHER plus: Here is Naval lore that you can let your nine-year-old can read without reservation as to language or content. When a reference needs to be made of "salty language" Gallery refers to the verbage as exactly that: Salty Language. Specifics are left to the imagination of the beholder as it were.
Well done July 7, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I spent 7 years in the Navy, this is one of the few books that can make me look back to theose days and smile.
Navy stories so outlandish and funny they must be true March 18, 1999
E122@aol.com (Los Angeles, Calif.)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Better make sure your chair has arms, otherwise you'll fall off laughing so hard. Check in with the screwball Navy populated by Lt. Cmdr. Curley Cue, Lt.(jg) Willy Wigglesworth, Adm. Windy Day, Adm. Bugler Bates and the rest to see how life must really be on an aircraft carrier. Written in the 1960s, Gallery's stories still ring true. No matter how technologically advanced today's Navy becomes, its still all about ships and men. And both have their foibles. Gallery exposes them all in this funny book. Don't stop with this one. Write the publisher and ask it to reprint all of Gallery's books. I am still missing a few from my collection.
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