He left the sea and spent several years living in the United States, working chiefly in a carpet factory. In Chile he became ill and had to return to England by steamer. After two and a half years on the school ship he was apprenticed aboard a sailing ship that was bound for Chile by way of Cape Horn.
At 13 he boarded the training ship Conway moored in the river Mersey. Young Masefield wanted to be a merchant marine officer. After his father's death he was looked after by an uncle. Masefield was born in Ledbury, Herefordshire, England. He is best known for his poems of the sea, Salt-Water Ballads (1902, including "Sea Fever" and "Cargoes"), and for his long narrative poems, such as The Everlasting Mercy (1911), which shocked literary orthodoxy with its phrases of a colloquial coarseness hitherto unknown in 20th-century English verse. John Masefield (June 1, 1878-May 12, 1967) was an English poet, writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967.
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