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"Roger Long" wrote:

Thank you for that.

Hayden's novel "Voyage" is also a great read. It makes the point that the
huge sailing ships at the end of the age of sail were not so much the apex
of the sailing ship but the harbinger of the industrial revolution in which
people became the fuel for the giant machines of commerce. Sailing them was
a brutal business compared to the smaller ships of a half century before.

I'm reading 'The Way of a Ship' - all about one of the last
square-riggers and its daily routine.. gripping, if somewhat exhausting
just thinking about those sailors!

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Molesworth