Sunday, November 30, 2014

World's most hazardous job.


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  1. No kidding. One slip and it's down to Davy Jones' locker if your good and the hot place if you're not.

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  2. Another outstanding read: "The Way Of A Ship" by Derek Lundy.
    from the book............
    "Them was the days, sonnies,
    "Them was the men,
    "Them was the ships,
    "As we'll never see again."

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  3. In fact....and I had to go get my copy that photograph is on the cover of the book!!

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  4. That could be as much as a fifth of the crew aloft if it was a barque. The sea was usually pretty unforgiving but there are many stories of those lost overboard who were washed back aboard by a following wave.

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