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31953	Bone, David W. (David William)	Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war			.txt	text/plain	88074	5137	77	was haled to hard and rigorous sea-service on vessels of war. the sea-trade to each individual of the ship's company. beautiful of man's creations on the sea--the square-rigged sailing ship sea-services, with other ships--to the absurd pretensions of the other The war has brought a new prominence to our sea-trade. their sea-life and its hardships, he noted the ship-measures and rude with the conduct of shipping and sea-affairs, our new controllers of the of our skilled seamen and numbers of our sea-officers were marking time destroy the ships and leave the seamen to the wind and sea and bitter with the new sea-warfare--with disaster to the shipping in the channels. convoy of merchant ships zigzag in confusing angles on their way to sea, for absence of ship-life, but out here--the clear horizon of an open sea [Illustration: A STANDARD SHIP AT SEA] Never, since the days of sailing ships and the leisurely deep-sea	./cache/31953.txt	./txt/31953.txt