October 27, 2024
Tag: Ambrose
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Lightships
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Lightships were intricate pieces of marine history here at home and around the world, but the romance of long careers full of exciting events usually happened elsewhere. The work on lightships was hazardous, tedious and dreadfully boring, sometimes for months on end. There is still little reward for work that benefits the traveling public.
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August 21, 2022 6 Comments
The clarion call that the sun never sets on the British Empire is legend but its first use was around the 1850s. Three hundred years before that the history of British royalty was already four hundred years old. That is a lot of history ponder. A Scottish princess named Mary is a bit part, but totally fascinating.