Tuesday, November 9, 2010

excerpts of sources, part 1

- a page from Handbook for Travellers in Greece, by John Murray (firm) published 1900, public domain, digitized by Google.



"Around the walls of a room known as the "Graveyard" in the Royal Exchange, the home of the famous shipping corporation of Lloyd's, London, are many hundreds of green-backed volumes telling strange tales of adventures at sea.

The records range back for more than a century, yet, even in thiese scientific days of transatlantic radio telephones from ship to shore, direction finders and echo-sounding devices against the perils of fog and darkness, Lloyd's are continually adding to these secret archives tales as true and strange as any ever written in the far off days before the first paddle steamer churned the waters on the long track from Liverpool to New York.

Many of these skeletons in Davy Jones' cupboard are never revealed to newspaper readers. Some of them are in the shape of genuine bottle messages cast ashore years after..." by Harold T. Wilkins. from magazine Popular Mechanics, December 1929

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