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THE LAST GRAIN RACE
ERIC NEWBY
William Collins
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This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2014
First published in Great Britain in 1956 by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
Copyright © Eric Newby 1956
Eric Newby asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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Source ISBN: 9780007597833
Ebook Edition © November 2014 ISBN: 9780007597840
Version: [2014-10-07]
All photographs in this book are drawn from a collection of several hundreds taken by the author in the course of the voyage, none of which had been previously published until the book’s first publication in 1956. The copyright is held by the author. The illustration on p.17 is reproduced by kind permission of the Editor, The Belfast News-Letter.
LLOYD’S WEEKLY SHIPPING INDEX MAY 5th, 1904
On April 18th there was launched at Port Glasgow by Messrs William Hamilton and Co. a four-masted barque of about 3,200 tons gross, the last of two sister vessels built for Messrs G.H.J. Siemers and Co of Hamburg, for their nitrate trade: vessel has a length of 320 feet (b.p.), a beam of 47 feet and a depth of 28 feet to main deck, and is classed at Germanischer Lloyd’s under special survey. With the view of minimizing labour numerous winches are fitted on board for working of sails and the equipment also includes on 6-h-p. and one 10-h-p. petrol winch. During construction the vessel has been supervised by Mr Alexander Craig on behalf of Germanischer Lloyd’s, and by Captains Opitz and Gerdau on behalf of the owners. The barque was named Kurt (by Mrs T. W. Hamilton).
LLOYD’S LIST AND SHIPPING GAZETTE MARCH 5th, 1935
MOSHULU (ex ‘Kurt’). – Steel four-masted barque: 5,300 tons d.w., 3,116 gross, 2,911 net. Built Port Glasgow, 1904 Sold by the Charles Nelson Company, Inc., San Francisco, to Captain Gustaf Erikson, Mariehamn. It is understood that the sale is ‘subject to survey’.
Contents
Extracts From Lloyd’s Index and List
Sail Plan and Diagram of Running Rigging
Map of Moshulu’s Course Round the World
Introduction to the 1981 Grafton Edition
Chapter 6: Sömmarström and His Sails
Chapter 7: Wild Life in the Irish Sea
Chapter 9: ‘Ängelskit’ and ‘Kabelgarn’
