And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
In the early 1990s, we spent an entire six-week rotation tied to the dock in Pembrokeshire.
There was a horrific storm that winter which actually took about a hundred lives along the British and European coasts.
After two or three weeks of standing by, the Houston office ordered us to go to work. Our Captain steamed out of the harbor, said "Nope" to all the violent pitching and rolling our ship was doing, and we were back alongside less than eight hours later.
Wales is one of the most beautiful places on earth.
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There was a horrific storm that winter which actually took about a hundred lives along the British and European coasts.
After two or three weeks of standing by, the Houston office ordered us to go to work.
Our Captain steamed out of the harbor, said "Nope" to all the violent pitching and rolling our ship was doing, and we were back alongside less than eight hours later.
I think it, or one just like it became a house a few years ago. It featured on the English version of Grand Designs.
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