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But the wind is uncertain and faint here. The navigator who is not continually ready to make use of even the lightest breath can spend weeks in this uncomfortable hothouse. There is no rest for the sailors. There are watches in which they hardly get off the braces for ten minutes.

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In a compact mass, the water falls from the blue-grey sky. Everything and everyone aboard revels in soap and water, for the fresh-water store of a sailer is limited and the duration of the passage most uncertain. A sort of madness seizes everyone. Clad only in a cake of soap, the whole crew leaps around and lets itself be washed clean by the lukewarm ablution.

Filled with envy, the helmsman looks at the laughing foam-snowmen into which his comrades have transformed themselves. Everyone pulls out whatever he can wash and lets the sea salt get rinsed out thoroughly. By night the heavy lightning flashes of this region present a splendid show. Often the heavens flame copper-red and sulphur-yellows, and hardly for a second is the vessel surrounded by complete darkness.

The Laeisz four-master Peking is back in Europe after languishing rather unloved in New York for four decades. A major operation to get her back across the Atlantic in a floating dock last year is now being followed by a major refurb in Wewelsfleth, north of Hamburg.

Last days of sail, , Other stories , Sailing ship - Monkbarns , Sailing ship apprentice , Uncategorized. David Morris called himself a journalist, a writer. Around him on deck, eyes slid away. Three weeks earlier Morris had shot across to Walsh Bay, Sydney, where the ship was discharging nitrate, and buttonholed the mate, offering himself in any capacity at a nominal wage. He was a housekeeper, minding stores and dispensing first aid. He is a well-built man of 25, but he looks more like Movie poster for The Ship from Shanghai released in http: He had been inspired to join Monkbarns by the runaway success of a sea thriller published the previous year by another young Australian journalist, Dale Collins.

Ordeal is based on a round-the-world trip Collins made aboard the motor yacht Speejacks as historian to the US cement magnate Albert Younglove Gowen , who happened to be on his second honeymoon. But he seems to have fallen short on listening. Of the 28 men and boys who had left Liverpool in March , two were dead — including a year-old apprentice lost lashing down an escaping sail during a hurricane — and two more would die before they dropped anchor back in the Thames in Monkbarns securing lifeboats under heavy seas off the cape probably photographed by 3rd mate Malcolm Bruce Glasier.

It was they who had faced down disaster on the passage out, when a hurricane south-west of Good Hope knocked them so badly that the cargo shifted. With the lee side of the ship 12ft under and green seas raking the deck, it was they who had risked their lives deep in the hold, shovelling rock salt uphill for three days to try to right her.

Young Cyril Sebun was lost off the upper topgallant yardarm while they laboured. But nothing could have been done to save him. The boats were all smashed. He had been drinking heavily, the inquest noted. They sang Welsh hymns at his grave, and laid artificial flowers. Three entries from the diary kept by one of the apprentices, Eugene Bainbridge, offer a snapshot: Played Bridge all day and was up to finish.

It has been quite parky lately and it was anything but warm at the wheel from tonight. Course ENE, on starboard tack. Clear, calm, sunny, fresh. Doing about knots. He seemed to know that there was something in the air and beat it. A night of revelry of a peculiar sort. The Mate was particularly asked to refrain from blowing 2 whistles and when told why, was quite sympathetic. It was a bluff. He was to be seized in the middle of its proceedings and tried by the chief Pelican and his confederates.

Cold water was used to emphasise the gravity of the act, and Bill Hughes, the Court Hairdresser, operated. But worse was to come, because Morris evidently put up resistance to the assault, verbally if not physically. Bainbridge had been to see Moscovitch at the Criterion theatre while Monkbarns was in Sydney. Prisoner was next trussed up again more securely and taken forth to his execution.

The wash tub was underneath and someone was making a noise like water. The stunt worked so far and when about a foot off the deck, the word was given and Maurice was dropped!!! Had Morris believed his hostile playmates were actually dropping him gagged and bound into the Pacific? The Old Man and Mate were both observed to be enjoying it uncommonly. View of Valparaiso harbour with Monkbarns marked by apprentice Eugene Bainbridge with an arrow at the bottom copyright estate of Eugene Bainbridge. Two months later, just outside Valparaiso, he was still annoying the apprentices Dave joins us, and we are bored to a standstill with his platitudes!

Dave got us some stores and there was plenty of scoff. He unfortunately spoilt this good turn by telling some of his tall yarns. However, as soon they put out to sea again and rationing restarted, the moans resume. Dave wants to substitute sugar for molasses instead of substituting jam. Dave has been making mistakes with the weighing out of the butter and the tins containing so painfully small a quantity we complained and found we were getting less than our whack!

Young Bainbridge had a ringside seat. Crossed the Line last night. The Old Man had made some pills of ginger, glycerine and several other ingredients and covered them with sugar of which there is a very large quantity aboard from Rio. Neptune and wife right, Dave Morris and Eugene Bainbridge among the tarred six on the left copyright estate of Eugene Bainbridge.

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They set up court on the main hatch. We had made the washhouse door fast and they had to break the handle off to get in. I received the pills and spat them out. At a second shot, I managed to conceal one behind my tongue but before I could remove it my mouth was sore! I finished up being tipped backwards into a tub of water and then liberated. After I had seen two or three others done I went onto the boom and caught a 24lb bonito, which we had for tea. By miles off the Lizard they were down to rice and ersatz bread, but once into the shipping lanes an obliging German steamer provided relief.

They brought the boat alongside and the provisions pulled aboard: Then the Cook gave us curry and rice for breakfast!!!!!!!! It was nearly the last of him. When they picked up the pilot off Dungeness and it was discovered he handed out cigarettes for good steering — the first tobacco seen aboard for weeks — there was a rush to relieve the wheel frequently.

But they were so undernourished that the tug crew had to help them haul the hawser aboard. At 6pm on 10 July , Monkbarns dropped anchor off Tilbury. The following day they were towed up to Charlton Buoys, a vessel from a bygone age gathering crowds on the banks, and there the crew were paid off. And there the story ends. What became of David Morris I cannot tell. If he ever wrote up his historical sea stories, neither AG Course nor I could find a trace.

Bizarrely, the real thrill-seeker aboard Monkbarns that trip turned out to be the youngest apprentice, year-old Len Marsland of Brisbane. He worked as a prison guard in Canada, chased the explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins across the Atlantic in an attempt to sign up for his submarine expedition under the polar ice, reappeared in Reykjavik, erecting a signal station, and then back at sea as an officer on an icebound freighter in the Baltic and facing down machineguns in a Russian Black Sea port.

He fell 1, feet and died in Esher, Surrey, aged just A doctor aboard Tramping round the capstan, Monkbarns, by apprentice Eugene Bainbridge, copyright: Estate of Eugene Bainbridge. Over the months that followed, as Monkbarns crossed the Atlantic to Buenos Aires with a cargo of cement and then headed back eastwards in ballast round the Cape of Good Hope to Sydney, he shot 9, feet of film: Sadly, this nearly two miles of film seems to have disappeared. Shot from a heaving deck over years ago, washed in saltwater, dried in a dusty locker and exposed to sulphur fumes when the ship was fumigated in Newcastle, it is unlikely any of it has survived.

Desertions had left him shorthanded. Patrick Haggerty was an Irishman from Queenstown, Cork, red haired, blue eyed and popular. A fine shantyman, said Stone. He claimed to be off an Italian barque that had gone ashore near Buenos Aires and had only the dungarees, socks, cap and shoes he stood up in.

After he was found half frozen at the wheel one night, the ship had a whip-round for him: A doctor was a familiar sight on passenger steamers, schmoozing the saloon crowd and keeping at bay any unpleasantness from steerage. Naval vessels too usually had a surgeon, to patch up battle injuries.

But merchant ships knocking about the world with cargoes of nitrate or guano rarely enjoyed the luxury of trained medical assistance. Far from land, way off the steamer tracks and with no wireless to call for help or seek advice, the master had to rely on common sense and caution. It is hardly surprising then that the presence of a bona fide doctor aboard Monkbarns was greeted with enthusiasm by her crew.

Within a week storms were raking the ship. It was hard to sleep, wrote Stone. The main royal broke loose and tore both sheets out. The foresail ripped the starboard reefing jackstay clean off the yard, and the fore topmast staysail chafed most of the way through its bolt rope.

In the store room all the pickles and a case of kerosene were lost. The following morning Stone watched the steward and two of the apprentices leaping about among the stores trying to catch tumbling tins. The fore hold was a jumble. The ship had acquired a list to starboard, and was rolling badly. The skipper had told him the squalls had been hurricane force 11 to 12, and that they might not have survived the night if the ship had been loaded.

There were only four candles aboard his and de M. As paying passengers Stone and de M. Their doors being opposite each other the contents of both cabins were well mixed. Beaver had the much used water in their basin, the contents of a water jug and a tin of Swizo milk spilt into his bunk. He borrowed rug etc from de M. More seriously, one of the ABs was injured. Stone noted an inflamed ligament, painful to the touch and prescribed iodine.

On June 11, Stone noted: Got up and collected them. I certainly cannot imagine more wind or a bigger sea. I heard that at 3. He is a short fellow and was up to his neck. That I think gives me some idea of the sea shipped on broaching to, and we in ballast. The Old Man — who was 64 and had been up all night — was laid up with cramp in the chart house, and the foremast staysail was a rag. The hurricane squalls and strong gales continued for three weeks, almost without let up. Stone and de M. Monkbarns was one of five sailing vessels that arrived at Newcastle on the weekend of 5th July , including the full-rigged Ben Lee, which had sailed from Buenos Aires two weeks before her.

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