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I never had any ambition other than to go to sea.

— Arthur Rostron Home From the Sea (1931)

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Inspections should be taken seriously and should be by no means cursory.

Home From the Sea (1931)

There's a proverb that you can't teach old dogs new tricks. But all I can say is that any senior man who is incapable of assimilating a working knowledge of all the latest and most up-to-date gadgets in use on board the floating palaces had better swallow the anchor and moor up on shore. The sooner the better.

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