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The Sailors' Homecoming

by Chris Armstrong

There is a time

channel mists behind, we sit at anchor for the tide

then in the early hours the Thames pilots board

and - slowly for the mist still lingers close to land -

we move up river reaches, take tugs and find our lock

to gently nudge our way between the barges

until we are tied up again in Albert's dock,

derricks swung and hatches open -

and I am free

 

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Thursday 18th October 2018 4:31 pm

merchant navy   London   docks   cargo   sailors   ships   tugs   pilots   discharge   1960s   barges   Biscay   storms   fog   anchorage

A Memory of Schooldays Cargoes

by NICK ARMBRISTER

A Memory of Schooldays                                                                                                       

Cargoes

Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,                                                                                                                                          

Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,                                    ...

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Thursday 27th February 2014 5:29 pm

ships   cargo   the ocean   poem   history   John Masefield

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