One could already say by 1926 that the era of the great four-masted, deep-sea sailing ships was over. Before and after the first world war, there was a deep depression in Europe, and more than one hundred large sailing ships were laid up in France and England. Most of them finally found their end in the scrapyard, but the best...

Kun näin tämän kuvan tässä, tuli mieleen että tällaisen on täytynyt olla sen laivan kansi näkymä, jonka perässä luki; 'Do or Die'.mihin nuori Joshep Condrad sai jobin, ja jonka päällystöön hänen lisäkseen kuului kaksi vanhaa ukkoa, toinen laivan päällikkö ja toinen ensimmäinen perämies.Laivan oli määrä viedä kolilastti Bangkokiin. Laiva oli sitten...

Was told that he had served his wartime in some Germany ss battalion. However, the truth never revealed his past, so the assertion was letting on the level of a "scuttle bite".

Before the wind, we came with rolling in the pale dawn of December, driven by the northern gale arriving at last in a haven, into the Germany port Lebec. Flavia came to see me. She has travelled from Sweden by her little car and was delighted seeing us secured in the harbour. I wasn't in high spirit, for I was...

Once you have given up your shore life and elected the sea life and the customary daily practice and the routine onboard a vessel - settled in the ship's company- accepting the rule of the sea to become a subject in the tiny master institute with the everlasting commands,- then you are a sailor. You will have your regular meals,...

HAD said that Joshua Slocum, the former master of many sailing ships - getting reaching the age of sixty-one, encountered a problem to have a job because he was too old for an active merchant service.one day he got a hint from an acquaintance of an old boat with a cheap price. The subject in question was an over hundred-year-old...

The night was dark and soft, and there was easy to feel the great river's. I sat on earth in the grass and other of the two ordinary seamen, Leo, was sitting beside me. The third of us - an ordinary seaman, stood little apart. He was a man with heavy bulk. I heard his name uttered; it sounded like,...

We advanced in the snow, there was the sea ice under the snow it was slippery and every pace required hard work, so it made our way difficult, The vast expanse of the white around with nor a pot to fix your eyes. Johan who was the tallest of us went first hauling a led carrying full of supply; such as pork potatoes and other stuff....

In a chilly day of December In the Port of Gevle, Northwest blew with light snow; there was a smell in it, it was a cold flavour of oncoming winter, a few of days ago the ground had been naked and the weather mild, now all the signs indicated that the weather above sixty degrees latitude had taken her finally turn to the winter....