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On such a night

				Thomas Johnston

		On such a night such as this the ships of Rome
		Sailed out and out on such a darkling sea,
		And many a Roman sailor dreamed of home --
		Of love and life in far-off Italy.

		On such a night, my dear, some Portuguese
		Has leaned his sunburned shoulders on the rail,
		Has heard the soothing rustle of the breeze,
		Looked up, and seen, above the soft-curved sail,
		The pointed mast trace missives in the sky;
		Then, humming low in liquid latin tone,
		Enchanted by the world's tranquility,
		Has thought of one who lived for him alone.
		The sky above so deep, the stars so bright!
		Oh for my love, close-held, on such a night.

Contents

  TRAVELLERS AT LARGE
	Pedro Vaz de Caminha (1500),
	Eugenio de Salazar (1573), Oliver St John Gogarty,
	William Hickey (1782),
	Byron, Chateaubriand, Tennyson, Dickens,
	Kipling (How the whale got his throat, Minesweepers),
	Sophia Taylor, Edward Lear, Robert Baden-Powell, Anna Brassey,
	Fuller, John : (poem: The Aegean), RL Stevenson
	Masefield, John: (Cargoes, Rounding the Horn 208, Eight Bells 357),
	Ethel Mannin, Noel Coward, Charles Tennyson Turner,
	James Cameron, Vernon Bartlett, Noel Mostart (1971)
  NAVAL OCCASIONS
	Benjamin Archer: Loss of the HMS Phoenix,
	Captain Bligh and James Morrison: (Two views of Captain Bligh),
	Thomas Byam Martin: King George II
	Walt Whitman: Song for all seas, all ships
	Admiral Collingwood: dreams of home
	Robert Browning: Home thoughts, from the Sea
	Napolean boards the Bellerophon:  Frederic Maitland (Captain), George
		Hume(Midshipman), Humphrey Senhouse (Captain)
	Hawks, Francis L: Commodore Perry throws a party at Lew Chew [Okinawa] 158
	Costello, John: Opening the door to Japan 162
	Hawks, Francis L: Rescue of the Sillibaboos
	Edgar S Maclay: An unwanted rescue,
	Hillaire Belloc: The fleet recalled (from The cruise of the Nona)
	W.S. Chalmers: The high seas fleet
	Michael Roberts: HMS Hero
	Monsarrat, Nicholas: The U-boats
	Eliot, Samuel: Japan
  SMALL BOATS
	Slocum: Spray; Robert Manry: Tinkerbelle
	Ann Davison: Reliance;  Dougal Robertson: Lucette
  WHEN THE GOING WAS ROUGH
        Walter,Richard : Scurvy,
	Dog Soup: Andrew Kippis,  Daniel Ammen
	Granville Sharp: The slave trade (Zong case)
	Slave chase: Anon
	Charlotte and Denis Plimmer: The slave trade evidence
	W.S. Gilbert: The yarn of the Nancy Bell
	Melville, Herman: Typhoid (from Redburn)
	Prostitution, (by surgeon on Mona's Herald 1857)
	F.T. Bullen: Sea monsters
  VOYAGING IN STYLE
	James Dugan: The Great Eastern
	Whitman: The year of meteors
	Lucius Beebe: The only way to go, The VIPs
	Terry Coleman: The Titanic, Decline and Fall (from The Liners)
	Plath, Sylvia: On deck
	Coleman, Terry: The Normandie
	Donald K. Stanford: The Ile de France
  OPEN BOATS
	Shackleton, Ernest: Elephant Island to S. Georgia
	Macdonald, Angus: And then there were two
	McCormick, Donald: The ordeal of Poon Lim
	Journey without end: Kenneth Kerr's failed attempt to row across the Atlantic
  FICTION
	Hardy, Thomas: The viceroy passes
	Flecker, James Elroy: The old ships
	Herman Melville,
	Poe, Edgar Allan: Descent into the Maelstrom
	Conrad, Joseph: The Narcissus comes home
	William Pearce, Jules Verne, Stephen Crane,
	Clough, Arthur H: Where lies the land to which the ship would go?
	Churchill, Winston: Man overboard
	Auden, WH: The ship
	Maugham, W.S.: Mr. Know-all
	Johnston, Thomas: On such a night (Poem)
	Waugh, Evelyn: Orphans of the storm (from Brideshead Revisited)