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Re: Navigation errors and Sahara crash 1952
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2015 Jun 1, 11:30 -0700
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2015 Jun 1, 11:30 -0700
Don, thank you. I wrote off the top of my head, meaning to add a PS to that effect; then fergot.
Hewitt
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Hewitt Schlerethwrote: > Yes, the trephining of Joe Plaice takes place on the deck of the Sophie, > Jack's first command. It's referred to many times in the course of the > series - more and more luridly at each repetition - almost as often as his > quip that dog watches are so called because they are "curtailed." Later, in > The Far Side of the World, a doctor is all set to trephine a comatose > Stephen when Stephen sneezes and wakes up. More specifically, it is the Gunner, Mr Day, who undergoes the trephine aboard the Sophie. Joe Plaice's turn is aboard Surprise in Far Side of the World, several chapters before Dr Maturin barely escapes the procedure. Don Seltzer