Gossip: the biography of a yacht / Cecily Gould.
By: Gould, Cecily [author.]
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BookPublisher: Woodbridge : Seafarer Books, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 203 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0954275004 (paperback).Subject(s): Gossip (Yacht) | Voyages and travels | YachtingDDC classification: 910.45 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending | 910.45 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00180801 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This is the story of a most unusual man, Dambom, his yacht Gossip and his family who grew to love and crew her from small children and throughout their lives. Gossip's many adventures both home and abroad are recounted here.
1880- Dambom -- 1899- Gossip -- 1920-26- Early days -- 1927- Three northern capitals -- 1928- Norway: the Hardanger Fjord -- 1929-31- Voyage home and the Schneider Trophy Contest -- 1932- St. Malo and the Channel Islands -- 1933-39 - Holland and Anthea -- 1939-45- The war years -- 1946- The great scrub -- 1947-48- Holland revisited -- 1952- Houseboat -- 1953- Brittany -- 1955- Man overboard -- 1956- Fog in the Channel -- 1956-64- Solent and the grandchildren.