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"A man walking briskly made five"
I would like to know that man...

2014/1/15, Andr�s Ruiz :
> I read novels by:
> Patrick O'Brian  Aubrey &
> Maturin
> C. S. Forester  Horatio
> Hornblower
> Dudley Pope 
> Julian Stockwin 
> Alexander Kent  (Douglas
> Reeman) Bolitho
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> Now I am reading Convoy by Pope (WW2). An extract:
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> Grey ships steaming along on a grey sea under a grey sky; a long grey swell
> rolling in from the west. There had been no hint of the sun at noon, so
> there had been no sights; the barometer was staying the same. Yorke walked
> into the chartroom to look at the chart. Hobson had put a pencilled cross,
> with the time and date, showing the noon position by dead reckoning, and
> the convoy�s zig-zag progress across the chart was so slight he had to use
> a sharp pencil. Six knots - Columbus�s little ships must have crossed to
> the New World at about that speed when running before the Trade winds. Six
> knots. A man walking briskly made five. The convoy from Liverpool to
> Freetown was going the whole way at slightly more than the speed of a man
> walking to church on a Sunday morning with a nip in the air. That was the
> speed at which most convoys crossed the Atlantic, simply because six knots
> was the speed that most small merchant ships could guarantee to maintain
> ...
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> Andr�s Ruiz
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