Hard down! Hard down!

Hard down! Hard down!
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Hard Down! Hard Down! describes the eventful life of a Shetland man in pursuit of his ambitions – to reach the top in his profession, to find a wife, to cherish a family, to do his job well and to be respected by his peers. The account is enlivened by extracts from numerous well-chosen family letters, diaries and postcards revealing the minutiae of shipboard and family life 120 years ago. These include a bachelor night out in ’Frisco, buying slippers in Dantzig and a captain who changed his underclothes at midweek because he could not remember which weekend his wife had suggested!

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Captain Jack Isbester. Hard down! Hard down!

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FOREWORD BY PROFESSOR TONY LANE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1 CHILDHOOD IN SHETLAND

2 GOING TO SEA – ARTHUR IRVINE

3 EARLY YEARS AT THE FISHING

4 GOING FOREIGN

5 SERVICE AS AN OFFICER

6 GETTING SPLICED

7 IN SEARCH OF COMMAND

8 MRS ISBESTER GOES TO SEA

9 SUSIE ISBESTER’S SECOND VOYAGE

10 THE NORWEGIAN SHIP FJELD

11 THE LOSS OF THE BARQUE CENTAUR BY FIRE

12 THE UNTIMELY END OF THE BARQUE ROSSDHU

13 ‘THE MIGHTY DALGONAR’

14 THE SECOND FAMILY VOYAGE

15 TRAGEDY IN COQUIMBO

16 FROM LIVERPOOL TOWARDS SYDNEY

17 RUNNING THE EASTING DOWN

18 LIFE AND DEATH

19 THE FINAL VOYAGE TO MELBOURNE

20 MELBOURNE

21 NEWCASTLE, NSW

22 CALLAO, PERU

23 THE LOSS OF THE DALGONAR

24 THE BACKGROUND TO THE TRAGIC LOSS

25 THE AFTERMATH

APPENDIX 1 CARGO WORK FOR A TYPICAL CENTAUR VOYAGE

Discharge of ballast and hold preparation

Rigging shifting boards

Loading the coal

Discharging the coal

Loading grain

Stowing grain

APPENDIX 2 WORKING OUT THE DEAD HORSE

APPENDIX 3 CROSSING THE LINE CEREMONY

APPENDIX 4 REPORT OF DALGONAR FORMAL INVESTIGATION

DALGONAR

Report of Court

APPENDIX 5 MR MULL’S LOG OF THE CASUALTY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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HARD DOWN! HARD DOWN!

Foreword by Professor Tony Lane

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Figure 16.3 Becalmed

Figure 16.4 Alone

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