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Sailing with Mr. Belloc / Dermod MacCarthy.

By: MacCarthy, Dermod, 1911- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Grafton Books, 1987Copyright date: ©1986Description: 166 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0246132442 (paperback).Subject(s): Yachting -- Great Britain | Authors, English -- 20th century -- BiographyDDC classification: 828.91209
Contents:
Introduction -- A note on Hilaire Belloc's voice -- Hilaire Belloc's return to the sea -- The way we sailed then -- A childhood memory -- The history of the Jersey -- Mr. Belloc at Poole aboard the Jersey -- The Anvil Point affair -- One of Mr. Belloc's cronies -- Poole to Yarmouth and a lifeboat rebuffed -- Yarmouth, Isle of Wight -- Mr. Belloc liked to shock non-catholics (and catholics too) -- Ryde to Shoreham -- Boulogne, crossing the Colbart, Crecy, Fog -- The affair of the Hythe lifeboat -- Mr. Belloc's views on errors of navigation -- The Jersey dismasted in Mid Channel -- An overhaul at Pin Mill -- The Jersey on the east coast -- On having no brakes and the 'Bowsprit Trick' -- Mr. Belloc in Ostend -- Ostend to Flushing --- The Veere Canal -- A nightmare in the North Sea -- Hole haven and hibernation -- The last days of the Jersey -- Too old for it.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending 828.91209 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00180705
Total holds: 0

Introduction -- A note on Hilaire Belloc's voice -- Hilaire Belloc's return to the sea -- The way we sailed then -- A childhood memory -- The history of the Jersey -- Mr. Belloc at Poole aboard the Jersey -- The Anvil Point affair -- One of Mr. Belloc's cronies -- Poole to Yarmouth and a lifeboat rebuffed -- Yarmouth, Isle of Wight -- Mr. Belloc liked to shock non-catholics (and catholics too) -- Ryde to Shoreham -- Boulogne, crossing the Colbart, Crecy, Fog -- The affair of the Hythe lifeboat -- Mr. Belloc's views on errors of navigation -- The Jersey dismasted in Mid Channel -- An overhaul at Pin Mill -- The Jersey on the east coast -- On having no brakes and the 'Bowsprit Trick' -- Mr. Belloc in Ostend -- Ostend to Flushing --- The Veere Canal -- A nightmare in the North Sea -- Hole haven and hibernation -- The last days of the Jersey -- Too old for it.

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