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SEAWORTHINESS

Seaworthiness

Dec 18th 1997
From The Economist print edition

EVERY age has its own view of the ocean. For Elizabethan adventurers, the seas were imagined to hold untold treasures, as the Duke of Clarence dreamt in “Richard the Third”: “Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, / Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, / All scatter’d in the bottom of the sea.”

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