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Captain Robert Huddle’s logbook: the epilogue

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:April 8, 2021
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This rather melancholy epilogue to the logbook of Captain Robert Huddle - excerpts of which I have transcribed in other posts - finds the old seaman washed ashore in England,…

Robert Huddle's watercolour of the Royal Mail Steamer Scotia, one of the ships on which he worked.

The logbook of Captain Robert Huddle

Post author:Greg Ray
Post published:October 3, 2019
Post category:Greg Ray's Writing History Miscellaneous
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A year or two ago I was privileged to receive a remarkable book from the library of a friend who had passed away. It is a hefty bound volume, containing…

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