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Traditions and culture relevant to the world of real boating and sailors
This tomb – that of Captain Robert Smith (d.1697) – is in Holy Cross and St Lawrence Church, Waltham Abbey.
I was alerted to it was sent to me be my musical pal and occasional reader Malcolm Woods.
The ship is the Industria and is depicted negotiating the Rock of Socordia (sloth), which I guess a ship with that name would have to do.
More information and photos can be found here.
A film by Remco Merbis and Fern Scott. Boatbuilder Ben Harris is based in Cornwall, UK.
Thanks to all my chums who posted this on Facebook!
More tosh about sailors and fishermen… this time by the ineffable Lesley Sarony, an astonishing performer whose career extended from before The Great War and continued into the 1980s. For this insight into the non-PC (and not terribly kind) way people thought in 1933, my thanks go to Neil Brookes…