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The Sea Captain’s bookshelf
Anyone studying family history in the Dinas area or merely haunting the graveyards to read the tombstones will know that too many mariners died at sea. Board of Trade inquiries into maritime disasters in the 19th century showed that a ship … Continue reading
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Tagged catechism of the Laws of Storms, Dinas, Dinas Cross, master mariner, Pembrokeshire, sea captain, ship wrecks
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