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Sep 13, 2022Liked by Kathleen McCook

I love this story! That description of sailors... just not really a class we have in the same way anymore.

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Sep 13, 2022·edited Sep 13, 2022Liked by Kathleen McCook

All this while they're busy overhauling the USS Texas last of the steel dreadnoughts.

"If informed of or directed to hospitals, asylums or other places of relief ashore which do not bear the name Seamen's they are unwilling to approach them and will submit to be driven to such receptacles-only by extreme misery."

Some people are good at going to hospital, and some people are my mother.

elm

what can you do?

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Great story!

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Sep 13, 2022Liked by Kathleen McCook

Very interesting story! I'm glad all those sailors got the help they needed.

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I LOVE THIS.

I was aware that sailors were a special class thanks to British Bake Off: Aggie West was known as the Mother of the British Navy. She wrote newsletters for seamen, inventing tinned Christmas puddings to send to them, and worked with “sailors rest” facilities ashore. https://wednesdayswomen.com/agnes-aggie-weston-mother-of-britains-royal-navy/

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Great story!

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