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Merchantman Poems - Poems about Merchantman


Rough Seas
...Place a pair of good eyes high, watch for distant freeze, lifelines coated with ice, sails stiff unyielding sheets. Make right, steer clear and take no chance our side berg meets, Queen beats east......

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Categories: merchantman, courage,
Form: I do not know?
Reflections By Commodore John Barry
...“He fought often and once bled in the cause of freedom, but his habits of War did not lessen in him the peaceful virtues which adorn his private life.” Doctor Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaratio......

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Categories: merchantman, adventure, autumn, dedication, history,
Form: Epic



Heroes All
...On the 70th of VJ Day we salute the Forgotten Service the Red Ensign heroes of the longest battle of all, the whole war: the only good war for Freedom's cause. When a merchantman got hit, th......

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Categories: merchantman, war,
Form: Prose Poetry

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