Maurice D Smith

Sailor, deep sea, and Great Lakes and in command of brigantine Pathfinder. Museum Executive Director and now Curator Emeritus. Documentary Film unit, CBC

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Heading across the English Channel to Brest in 1967. Joined in Falmouth, my favorite UK port - ended up in Fowey; the pub is still there. The Sir Winston Churchill, a 3-masted schooner is no longer in service for youth - pity.

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Gratified to see sailing barges surviving in the port of Maldon just inland of the North Sea on the east coast of the UK.

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@OnthisdayRN @PhilipKAllan @RoyalNavy An irony - he lived in a home across the street from The War Museum in London UK.

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@theJagmeetSingh I hope you find a way to keep on contributing to the general good.

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It is now 2025 and after a long absence I have decided to enter more about the marine world online. There is an extensive collection of articles about happenings previously published so let me know if you got this message. Thank you.
Maurice.

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@OrkneyUncovered Good.

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@Franksquarerig Vernier control magnifier is not aligned, too many construction features just not line up.

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@Franksquarerig Has the lesson been learned?

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@MMGLK Nay, nay. Not a pump. Open the valve and that allows water into the dock. Close the valve and that stops water entering the dock. The machinery for pumping out water is far more complex.

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@HMCSSACKVILLE1 Crew

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@robbiekath @BrockUniversity @dig_maritime A fine piece of work giving the historical subject the design know how it richly deserves. Is there a publication associated with the exhibition?

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@MMGLK In fact looking at the men more closely you can see then turning the valve.

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@tedhsu Look good close up.

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@MMGLK Just on the left of the men there is a valve when opened allows water to flood the dry dock. Pumps inside the outer stone building pump water from the bottom of the dry dock discharging into the far side dock. Cheers, retired museum Executive Director 1978 - 2002

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My favourite street in London, UK. Villiers, from the Thames River it leads to Kings Cross thence to Trafalgar Square and other discoveries.

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A dry dock caisson ( some erroneously call them a gate). The facility in operation from the 1780s on (?); I took this picture in 1991 while close to Helsinki, Finland. Remarkably it has features similar to the Marine Museum dry dock in Kingston, Ont, Canada.

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@isabelcampbell I like how citizens of the NWT have taken leadership positions.

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@ReadyAyeReady There as a Sea Cadet about the same time.

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@ReadyAyeReady Among the very best mess deck picts I have seen, the real thing.

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@tedhsu I completely agree with the first comment about voting. Enough people bashing.