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Roshnara was my grandfather Jocks' boat. After returning from India Jock my grandmother and Jocks 'batman' cruised around the coast of Ireland.

My grandmother some years before she died told me that Roshnara was later used in the Dunkirk evacuation. After that she heard Roshnara was left a rotting hulk in a forgotten estuary.

Also on that page are those beautiful quatrains of Omar Khayyam,

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead,
And then of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed:
Yea, the first Morning of Creation wrote
What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.

#romance #poetry #boats #1930s
chicago, illinois
october 1959

tugboats, port of chicago

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Dad sent me this one late last night:

“The Robert E. Simanek went by tonight. She is a heavy life vessel designed for carrying other vessels. They clear the low main deck and flood ballast tanks to sink the ship down into the water. Then they float another vessel over the deck and bring it out of the water for transport.”

(I love how, if you zoom in, it looks like the house across the river is sitting on the upper deck.)