' A Modern Bobby Shaftoe '-' I'll run away and go to sea! ' How often that used to be the method of joining the Navy. Nowadays, a boy can go through a proper course of training, learning as much in six weeks as the average sailor learns in two years at sea. Listeners can follow a Tyneside deck trainee through his training for the Merchant Navy on board S.S. ' Compiegne.' Script by Patricia Docksey. Produced by Nan Macdonald