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...your contents page you refer to Graf as "A Female Captain Bligh." Shame on you for perpetuating a myth. Bligh was one of the Royal Navy's most humane captains, certainly no martinet. You should pay more attention to history and less to Hollywood. Mike Witt, PETTS WOOD, ENGLAND...
...ship aground?" she screamed. Not only was this a possible naval disaster, but it was a diplomatic one as well: the navigator was an officer in the British Royal Navy, a billet unique to the Churchill. (See "The Rise and Fall of a Female Captain Bligh...
...Complaints About Female 'Captain Bligh' Began Early...
...offering contemporary Australian cuisine. Then I'd take in a concert or play at the Opera House, tel: (61-2) 9250 7777, or listen to live rock or blues at the Basement, tel: (61-2) 9251 2797, and end the evening at the chic Bligh...
...enough seats were changing hands in the country's populous southeast. On the monitors, former leader Kim Beazley looms, warning that the result had better not hinge on the late-voting Western Australia, where rude prosperity was helping the government. In the flesh, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh sounds grim about her own state, where only two seats are classed as Coalition marginals. "It's a huge ask of Queensland," she says. "We're still in nailbiting territory...