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...Shipwright, Preacher & Admiral, they were an incongruous assortment. Preacher Dobson-Peacock, often in Norfolk headlines, had a church in Mexico City when the late Dwight Whitney Morrow was Ambassador there. John Hughes Curtis, a builder of small boats, had had professional dealings with rum-runners. Admiral Burrage, who commanded the cruiser Memphis when it brought Col. Lindbergh triumphantly home from France five years ago, is noted for taciturnity and exactitude. His sailors, made to keep their socks up, used to cill...
RELATED CIVIL JOBS: Carpenters, Ship Carpenters, Shipwright, Patternmaker, Cabinet Maker...
RELATED CIVIL JOBS: Shipfitter, Plumber, Pipefitter, Shipwright, Metal Worker, Welder...
...years ago he had not met Nick Burningham, a maritime-heritage consultant who specializes in replicas of early Southeast Asian ships. Beale commissioned Burningham to create a design based upon the sculpture at Borobudur and then hired Assad Abdullah, an Indonesian with 30 years experience as a shipwright, to build the vessel...
...impossible: write a plausible mystery novel about Jane Austen. Yes, that Jane Austen, the real-life author of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Jane and the Ghosts of Netley, the seventh book in Barron's Jane Austen series, begins with two murders: that of a shipwright, whose throat is slit by an unknown assailant, and that of a ship, a 74-gun British warship intended for use against the Emperor Bonaparte's forces (it's 1808, if you're just tuning in) that was burned in the shipyard where it was being built. Jane is enlisted to investigate...