Dr John Doherty Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire Re the Labour leadership campaign, the captain you need in a lifeboat is not necessarily the same one you had on the cruise ship (Letters, 27 July).
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Adams oversaw the construction of Western-style ships, wrote letters on behalf of the shogun encouraging Dutch and English traders to come to Japan, and then officiated between the shogunate and the traders who began visiting the country.
Here also is the largest library in the world devoted to polar studies, and a mighty archive that contains papers relating to nearly all the important expeditions, including ships' logs, letters and diaries.
Although French Navy cruisers were periodically stationed on the islands, the majority of ships that preyed on British commerce from the islands were privateers, independently funded armed ships issued with letters of marque giving them permission to attack military and civilian ships belonging to the enemies of France.
The War of the Spanish Succession started in 1702, during which England's main maritime foes were France and Spain, and a number of Bristol ships were given letters of marque, allowing them to strike against enemy shipping.
His patchwork historical novels incorporate diaries, letters, ship captains' logbooks and the like, and present anomalous characters who defy received racial categories.
He sees the wretched, plucky ship, which fragmentary letters on its bow identify as the Halcyon, three more times — in Costa Rica, in Jamaica, and in the delta of the Orinoco River.
** He sees the wretched, plucky ship, which fragmentary letters on its bow identify as the Halcyon, three more times — in Costa Rica, in Jamaica, and in the delta of the Orinoco River.
The Boston News-Letter contained, besides the shipping news, tiresome government pronouncements, letters from Europe, and whatever smattering of local news was bland enough to pass the censor.
