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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 : June 2015
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Duty and Daring in the Heyday of Empire. Tuesday, 30 June 2015. Blood in the Streets, Amsterdam 1886. Kermis on the Haarlemer Plein, Amsterdam " by George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923). With acknowledgement to the Amsterdam Museum. One such occasion was in 1876 when the Burgermeester – Mayor – of Amsterdam announced that the annual September Carnival “ Kermis. As illustrated in a French magazine. Street fighting in the Jordaan 26th July 1886. Note stones and shutters thrown from above). Commanded by Lieut...
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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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Human Writes: Interview with Author Jessica Knauss
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Perspectives on Entertainment and Human Rights. Interview with Author Jessica Knauss. At Wednesday, May 13, 2015 0 comments. When he submitted his. Trilogy to Fireship Press. They went on to collaborate on. For Açedrex Publishing. After two projects in which he was the author and she the editor, they’re sitting down to talk about her upcoming short story collection,. You find deeply disturbing and scary material in ordinary situations and. A teacher controls her students with an. The price will go up.
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Reading is the noblest pastime. La lectura es el pasatiempo más noble. Traducción – Translation. Para los libros de cada autor, ver la página Libros. Pincha en el nombre para una biografía. For the titles by each author, see the Titles. Page Click on the names for a biography. Leopoldo Alas “Clarín”. José María Blanco White. Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses. Leandro Fernández de Moratín. Manuel Fernández y González.
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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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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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