THE ROAD TO THE FAR WEST (VIA THE SUEZ CANAL)
NON-VENAL book
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Book: The Road to the Far West (via The Suez Canal).
Subtitle: Sketches of headlands, islands and lighthouses sighted on the voyage from Beachy Head to Sha-liu-tin (Gulf of Pechili). All Bearings are true.
Author: John F. Nicoll
Publisher: Irwing National Bank of New York
Publication place: New York
Publication year: s. d., c. 1939
Language: English
Size: 28 x 40,5 cm.
Pages: 38
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Very rare undated edition of a collection of sketches of all the capes, islands and lighthouses seen on a voyage done by the author from Beachy Head in the southwest of England to the Gulf of Pechili (China). John F. Nicoll was a Master in the service of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, founded in 1881 and liquidated in 1974. Little more is known about him than what his colleague H. Elliston Warrall provides in the succinct foreword that appears on a sheet attached to the back of the book’s cloth cover. Except for a typewritten text, the rest of its content is reduced to the very fine sketches. In this way, all information about this edition must be extracted from what appears printed on that page, which in red ink reads “M. S. CARDIUM”, what seems to link the possession of the book with the motor ship thus named. It is known that the prologue writer Warrall was at that moment in the Blue Funnel Line and there are documentation that shows he transported emigrants to Australia as a captain of ship before the First World War, as well as his status as a Younger Brother of the Trinity House, the institution responsible for operation and care of lighthouses in Great Britain.
Gulf of Pechili. La Jolla, CA, Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. http://Antique Maps Inc
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By the other hand, the tanker Cardium was launched in 1931 in Wallsend for the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co Ltd, which kept it in service until 1948.Acquired in 1951 by Compañía Naviera Puerto Madryn S. A. of London, it sailed under the flag of Liberia as Don Manuel. Transformed in 1955 for bulk transport, in 1961, when she was transporting iron ore from Pepel (Sierra Leone) to Amsterdam, off the Senegalese coast, she suffered a fire in the engine room. She had to be towed to Dakar and was declared a total loss. From there the ship began its last journey to Vigo to be scrapped.
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This ending explains the discovery of the book in the facilities of the company of naval effects and manufacturing nautical devices Orio y Cía, S. L. based in Vigo, as can be seen in a stamp that appears on the same page of the foreword. Hugues & Son Ltd. was dedicated to this same activity in London, and if it published this book it certainly did so in an exceptional way. In 1947 it merged with Kelvin Bottomley & Baird Ltd. to become Kelvin & Hughes Limited. With this we have that the book could not be published after 1947. With this we have that the book could not be published after this last year and even that, as I just suggested, it was not finally published, and that this model is a preliminary test, which would also explain why the price is not stated, despite having expressly reserved a space for it.
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