It is an argument that has reverberated around both the UK (where this is being written) and Australia. It is one that sets ideas of national self-sufficiency...
It got to us all in the end, when the supposed attractions of shore-side life began to outweigh those we once enjoyed afloat. To a few, seafaring never...
It is a terrible thing to see, a big ship wrecked and torn apart by a remorseless ocean. The miserable pictures of the giant bulker on the once pristine...
“Disasters are like buses,” says an old saying – “When you don’t want them, they come in threes.” It was an incident-packed...
When did the tarnish first appear on the “golden age” of shipping in which we were accused of living, all those years ago? When did the...
It appeared, at first glance, to be an ancient artefact, something that demanded the attention of skilled archaeologists, with their carbon dating machinery,...
This is being written on the “International Day of the Seafarer”, June 25, which, if you consider the way that society is currently treating this essential...
You have to feel very sorry for all these seafarers – 200,000 of them at the last count – whose voyages are being extended on account of the Covid-19...
We are thinking a lot about medical professionals in these virus-infected days, people have been rightly identified as heroes for their hazardous work...
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