Gavin Atkin's weblog for the sort of people who like looking inside boat sheds. It's about old boats, traditional boats, boat building, restoration, the sea and the North Kent Coast
Cicely Fox-Smith’s powerful poem about the brave crews and the miscellaneous collection of merchant vessels – many old and unfit in normal times – that kept the UK supplied during World War I despite the efforts of the German Navy. My thanks to Charlie Ipcar of Facebook’s Cicely Fox-Smith group for reminding me about this poem. For … Continue reading “Merchantmen, by Cicely Fox Smith”
Ocean Racers looks like a great account of clipper ship racing by the poet Cicely Fox Smith. I don’t know when I’ll find time to read it all (there’s far too much in my in-tray just now) but some of you might! My thanks to reader Brian Smith for letting me know of this book’s … Continue reading “Ocean Racers – Cicely Fox-Smith’s history of the great sailing ship races”
I’ve just learned about the poet Cicely Fox Smith. Not too much is known about her, but there’s a short biography at The Little Red Tree website. As a woman, Ms Fox Smith (1882-1954), must have been pretty well excluded from working as a sailor herself, but she writes very convincingly about ships and men … Continue reading “The sea poems of Cicely Fox Smith”