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An Absolute Wreck: The Loss of the Thomas W. Lawson

John Hicks

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Description:Towards sunset on Friday, 13 December 1907, the largest sailing vessel in the world, the schooner Thomas W. Lawson, reached the mouth of the English Channel after a stormy first transatlantic crossing, and with another gale brewing. Her crew realised, too late, that instead of being well clear of land they were among the rocks and shoals of the Isles of Scilly, and hurriedly anchored. In the night there was a violent storm, and by the small hours of the following morning she was a wreck. At daylight a six-oared island gig was launched into a still high sea to search for survivors among the rocks, eventually finding three. Men from the tiny island of St Agnes went out in their lifeboat to the Lawson when it arrived, or manned the gig next day, or both - 17 of them in all, of whom all but one were related to each other and 13 bore the same surname. One of them was aboard her as pilot when she went down, and was killed. It is an oft-told story, but there are a surprising number of contradictions among different versions, of apparent gaps in the narrative and of lack of attention to significant issues, as well as several (not so surprising) differences of opinion on moot points. This book goes back, wherever possible, to original sources to address those difficulties, and also fills in the backgrounds against which the unique vessel involved, the deeply superstitious man after whom she was named, and the small, close-knit community into which she irrupted, need to be understood. On the central question of what blame attached to the Lawson's master, Captain George W. Dow, it produces a new piece of evidence and reaches an unfashionable conclusion.The Author His Honour John Hicks QC had a career as a solicitor before transferring to the bar, later being appointed a Circuit Judge and finally ending his working life as a Judge of the Technology and Construction Court. He brings his experience in assessing complex and contradictory webs of evidence to the description and attempted resolution of the many issues in this story. Of even greater importance, certainly to his interest in the events described, he is directly related to all but one of the St Agnes islanders, men and women, who played central parts in them. He is the great-nephew of the pilot killed in the wreck and holds the gold medal presented by the US Congress to his grandfather as one of the crew of the rescue gig. Although a landlubber himself he is the son of an islander and thus comes from an unbroken line of boatmen and seafarers extending over some ten or more generations, part of whose lore he has endeavoured to absorb.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with An Absolute Wreck: The Loss of the Thomas W. Lawson. To get started finding An Absolute Wreck: The Loss of the Thomas W. Lawson, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 276

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Scotforth Books

Release: 2015

ISBN: 1909817252

Description: Towards sunset on Friday, 13 December 1907, the largest sailing vessel in the world, the schooner Thomas W. Lawson, reached the mouth of the English Channel after a stormy first transatlantic crossing, and with another gale brewing. Her crew realised, too late, that instead of being well clear of land they were among the rocks and shoals of the Isles of Scilly, and hurriedly anchored. In the night there was a violent storm, and by the small hours of the following morning she was a wreck. At daylight a six-oared island gig was launched into a still high sea to search for survivors among the rocks, eventually finding three. Men from the tiny island of St Agnes went out in their lifeboat to the Lawson when it arrived, or manned the gig next day, or both - 17 of them in all, of whom all but one were related to each other and 13 bore the same surname. One of them was aboard her as pilot when she went down, and was killed. It is an oft-told story, but there are a surprising number of contradictions among different versions, of apparent gaps in the narrative and of lack of attention to significant issues, as well as several (not so surprising) differences of opinion on moot points. This book goes back, wherever possible, to original sources to address those difficulties, and also fills in the backgrounds against which the unique vessel involved, the deeply superstitious man after whom she was named, and the small, close-knit community into which she irrupted, need to be understood. On the central question of what blame attached to the Lawson's master, Captain George W. Dow, it produces a new piece of evidence and reaches an unfashionable conclusion.The Author His Honour John Hicks QC had a career as a solicitor before transferring to the bar, later being appointed a Circuit Judge and finally ending his working life as a Judge of the Technology and Construction Court. He brings his experience in assessing complex and contradictory webs of evidence to the description and attempted resolution of the many issues in this story. Of even greater importance, certainly to his interest in the events described, he is directly related to all but one of the St Agnes islanders, men and women, who played central parts in them. He is the great-nephew of the pilot killed in the wreck and holds the gold medal presented by the US Congress to his grandfather as one of the crew of the rescue gig. Although a landlubber himself he is the son of an islander and thus comes from an unbroken line of boatmen and seafarers extending over some ten or more generations, part of whose lore he has endeavoured to absorb.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with An Absolute Wreck: The Loss of the Thomas W. Lawson. To get started finding An Absolute Wreck: The Loss of the Thomas W. Lawson, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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