Complex sentence: An accident on board the barque "Lawhill" beached Villiers in 1922, by then a seasoned Able Seaman, and he sought employment at the Hobart Mercury newspaper in Tasmania as a journalist as he recovered from his wounds.
Split into simpler sentences: An accident on board the barque "Lawhill" beached Villiers in 1922, by then a seasoned Able Seaman. He sought employment as a journalist at the Hobart Mercury newspaper in Tasmania while he recovered from his wounds.