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Thread #159399 Message #3776889
Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
05-Mar-16 - 07:37 PM
Thread Name: Origins: What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor
Subject: RE: Origins: Drunken Sailor-Dickens question for Gibb
If it helps any, the "Pequod" was patterned after the American whaler "Essex," launched 1799, rammed and sunk 20 November 1820.
MGM: [which I may be perhaps the only person round here ever to have actually read it right thru].
Erudition may be hazardous to your health, display with caution:
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/28/health/alas-poor-doctors-they-read-too-little.html