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Dawlish Chronicles : Naval Artists of the 18th Century – Part 5
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Duty and Daring in the Heyday of Empire. Friday, 7 August 2015. Naval Artists of the 18th Century – Part 5. A View of Nevis from St Kitts by Nicholas Pocock, 1790. This is an area Pocock knew well from his days as master of a merchant ship. The Consultation" - circa 1810. A situation Pocock would have. Been familiar with as a master - heavy weather and decisions need to be made. Pocock's log book of the Betsy. National Maritime Museum D1784. View of Charleston, South Caroline, 1767. The Frigate HMS Triton.
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Dawlish Chronicles : March 2015
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Duty and Daring in the Heyday of Empire. Tuesday, 31 March 2015. Diplomacy at Sea: USS Miantonomoh 1866/67. Two recent blogs described the loss of low-freeboard monitors in the open sea, the Dutch Adder. In 1882 and the Russian Rusalka. In 1893. In both cases the inadvisability of taking vessels designed for protected coastal waters into open-sea conditions was a major contributory factor to the disasters. By Francois G. Roux (1811-82). Had made her spectacular debut. Details are provided in the table.
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Dawlish Chronicles : April 2015
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Duty and Daring in the Heyday of Empire. Friday, 24 April 2015. The SS Arctic Disaster 1854. In my recent blog about the loss of the steamer SS Utopia. In Gibraltar harbour in 1891 I commented on the fact that for almost a century insufficient provision of lifeboats a major factor in marine tragedies. Only the Titanic. Loss in 1912 was to evoke a sufficient measure of outrage for the problem to be finally addressed, even if the rules are not always enforced today. The spectacular loss of the SS Arctic.
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Her Waters Her Home |
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Sunset On My Heart. Remains Of The Day. You Me and Waterloo Bridge. Her Waters Her Home. Hot Fish and Chips. Slipped Through My Fingers. Doin’ the Hop. Cup Of Tea With Dad. Once Upon A Star. Ovarian Cancer:What Is It? Her Waters Her Home. I had listened to the wind as it howled across the oceans. A brilliant sun making a brilliant day. This beach unlike those that waters flowed into. Her sand rich with the vast rainbow of pebbles beneath. Each stone cast out unique shapes and sizes. By Debbie Stevens 2007.
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Dawlish Chronicles : Penang, Malaysia – touching history
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Duty and Daring in the Heyday of Empire. Friday, 14 August 2015. Penang, Malaysia – touching history. Looking out across Penang harbour today. Now enter Francis Light. Light's statue in Fort Cornwallis. Penang in early 19th Century. Note Fort Cornwallis is top right corner. Seaward-facing bastions of Fort Cornwallis. The moat has long been filled in. A lighthouse is position at the far corner). Applies). A number of Napoleonic-era cannon-barrels have been set in the embrasures. This weapon had a very col...
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Remains Of The Day |
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Sunset On My Heart. Remains Of The Day. You Me and Waterloo Bridge. Her Waters Her Home. Hot Fish and Chips. Slipped Through My Fingers. Doin’ the Hop. Cup Of Tea With Dad. Once Upon A Star. Ovarian Cancer:What Is It? Remains Of The Day. The pathway a bed of shimmering sequences. Each crystal sparkles a reflection of his youth. Flakes of time float on gossamer wings. Silence, now the only presence. Madness rumbles in the valley below. Footsteps charging rage, camouflaged by fear. Gone, is what was. From ...
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You Me and Waterloo Bridge |
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Sunset On My Heart. Remains Of The Day. You Me and Waterloo Bridge. Her Waters Her Home. Hot Fish and Chips. Slipped Through My Fingers. Doin’ the Hop. Cup Of Tea With Dad. Once Upon A Star. Ovarian Cancer:What Is It? You Me and Waterloo Bridge. A ballerina stood upon the Thames. A pea soup mist clouded the view. All she holds is her lucky charm. And memories of a man she once knew. It was here they met so long ago. Amidst a war and wailing sirens. Between the noise they fell in love. You are commenting ...
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Dawlish Chronicles : January 2015
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Duty and Daring in the Heyday of Empire. Friday, 30 January 2015. 1866: Horror at Sea - the loss of the London. 8221; is a term often applied to our own time but the process was in full swing a century and a half ago. The 19. The wreck of the Corsaire. By Gustave Dore, 1860. Such disasters were not uncommon in this era. Catastrophe in 1912 that this concern was finally addressed comprehensively. Samuel Plimsoll (1824-1898) is one of the forgotten heroes of the 19. Century and for many years he campaigned...
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