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  • Ship on Top of Iceberg! October 6, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    Ship on Top of Iceberg!

    This is a haunting passage from the first volume of Cochrane’s Autobiography of a Seaman. The episode in question took place in 1794 while Cochrane was sailing on the Thetis. [63] The squadron sailed from Plymouth; and when about midway across the Atlantic an incident occurred worth relating… One night finding the temperature of the […]