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"Pig-Headed" Sailor Men
Contributor(s): Becke, Louis (Author)

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ISBN: 1502511584     ISBN-13: 9781502511584
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $6.64  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Reference
- Literary Collections
Physical Information: 0.05" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" L (0.11 lbs) 26 pages
 
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Crossing from Holyhead to Ireland one night the captain of the steamer and myself, during an hour's talk on the bridge, found that we each had sailed in a certain Australian coasting steamer more than twenty years before-he as chief officer and I as passenger; and her shipwreck one Christmas Eye (long after), which was attended by an appalling loss of life, led us to talk of "pig-headed" skippers generally. His experiences were large, and some of his stories were terrible even to hear, others were grotesquely humorous, and the memory of that particularly pleasant passage across a sea as smooth as a mill pond, has impelled me to retell some of the incidents I related to him of my own adventures with obstinate, self-willed, or incapable captains.
 
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