Monday, March 12, 2018

The Charles W. Morgan


 She must be a sight to behold!


















Lots of info here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Morgan_(ship)



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  1. When I was in the Navy, the entire crew would run to the lifelines to see a sailing ship. There was a four-masted ship in harbor at Monaco in '74, and we just stood and stared.

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    1. Even to a landlubber like me, she is magnificent! I always think of my Dad when I see sailing ships - his den walls were covered in pictures of them! He knew every sea shanty ever sung. And he played them on a harmonica, too! :o)
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  2. When the whale boats sailed the world it is said that you could smell one from fifty miles out. Further, if they were "rendering" blubber. They say that some time around 1900, one of the defunct "Morgan" ships stank so bad the city fathers of Bedford Mass. had it towed off shore and burnt. At one time "Morgan" wasn't a single ship. It was a fleet of whalers. C.W. Morgan is the last.--Ray

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    1. Thanks for the additional info, Ray! I can't even imagine the odor of all that blubber being rendered - it must have been awful!

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