A tragic trade

A camping dinghy may not offer the comforts of a modern cabin yacht, but no yacht is comfortable on a hard beat, no matter how many berths she may accommodate in her cabin. And there are serious disad

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The seasoned polar explorer Franklin lost two vessels and 129 men, himself included, in the late 1840s, searching for the route that would take 3,000nm off the sea route to the Orient. Even though glo

This is a history of margins and fringes – not only of the Atlantic Ocean itself, but also of the imaginations of those who worked on its surface and lived at its edges. In his new book, Karl Bell dra

TOM CUNLIFFE SIGNS OFF WITH THE TALE OF ONE THE GREATEST FEATS OF SEAMANSHIP OF ALL TIME: THE FIRST SIGHTING OF AMERICA

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