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Excerpt from The Blackwall FrigatesThe sea has ever been more conservative than the land, for the simple reason that at sea every attempt to step forward has to be paid for in human life rather than coin of the realm.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.… (meer)
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
What of the Ships, O Carthage! Carthage, what of the ships?
Introduction.
At the Blackwall Docks we bid adieu To lovely Kate and pretty Sue, Our anchor's weigh'd and our sails unfurl'd And we're bound to plough the wat'ry world Sing hay, we're outward bound! Hurrah, we're outward bound.
Part I. History of the Blackwall Yard, 1611-1836.
A hundred years is a very long time, Oh-ho! Yes! oh-ho! A hundred years is a very long time, A hundred years ago. They hung a man for making steam, Oh-ho! Yes! oh-ho! They cast his body in the stream, A hundred years ago. - (OLD SHANTY.)
Part II. A voyage out east in the good old days.
And the magic and mystery of the ships And the magic of the sea. - LONGFELLOW.
Part III. The Blackwallers.
Opdracht
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Dedicated to the Blackwall midshipmite
Eerste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The Blackwall frigates form a connecting link between the lordly East Indiamen of the Honourable John Company and the magnificent P. & O. and Orient liners of the present day.
Preface.
In considering the history and development of that most wonderful of all te works of man - the ship, one finds that the subject can be divided into six periods, namely:- The Day of the Coracle, The Day of the Galley Slave, The Golden Age of Sail, The Iron Age, The Day of Steam and Steel, The Oil Age.
Introduction.
The Blackwall frigates gained their name from the Blackwall Yard where so many of them took their shape.
Part I. History of the Blackwall Yard, 1611-1836.
Citaten
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The lithograph and the faded photograph, the sea stained log-book, and the letters of a few dead and gone shellbacks - letters with a foreign aroma and world-wide postmarks - are all that remain to us of a period which no sailor can think of except with a sigh of regret and a hope that, in the Port of Kingdom Come, he will find
" . . . . riding in the anchorage the ships of all the world, Having got one anchor down 'n' all sails furled."
Excerpt from The Blackwall FrigatesThe sea has ever been more conservative than the land, for the simple reason that at sea every attempt to step forward has to be paid for in human life rather than coin of the realm.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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