The Bay of Dublin has perhaps been more fatal to seamen and ships than any in the world, for a ship once caught in it in a gale from ENE to SSE must ride it out at her anchors or go on shore, and from the nature of that shore the whole of the crew almost invariably have perished.
(Captain Malcolm, commander of the royal yacht of King George III, the William and Mary.)THE FIGHT FOR SAFETY IN THE APPROACHES TO THE PORT OF DUBLIN
The Mariner's Mirror ; 72 , 4 ; 455-462
1986-01-01
8 pages
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