Complex sentence: At the age of 19, he apprenticed aboard the "Moshulu", joining the ship in Belfast in 1938 and sailing to Port Lincoln in Australia in 82 days with a load of ballast stone, a good passage for a windjammer.
Split into simpler sentences: At the age of 19, he apprenticed aboard the "Moshulu". He joined the ship in Belfast in 1938, sailing to Port Lincoln in Australia in 82 days with a load of ballast stone, a good passage for a windjammer.