Hard down! Hard down!. Captain Jack Isbester
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HARD DOWN! HARD DOWN!
Published by
Whittles Publishing Ltd.,
Dunbeath,
Caithness, KW6 6EG,
Scotland, UK
ISBN 978-184995-402-0
© 2019 Captain Jack Isbester
All rights reserved.
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without prior permission of the publishers.
The author’s website contains a wealth of transcripts of the letters and postcards of Captain John Isbester, his family and friends accompanied by spreadsheets recording details of his ships and voyages, of sailing ship casualties of the 1870s to 1910s, a transcript of the Articles of Agreement for Dalgonar’s final voyage and a sprinkling of photos which did not make it into the published book.
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THE ISBESTER ARCHIVE
The Isbester Archive is a considerable collection of letters, postcards, documents and photographs mainly gathered by Allan Isbester, fourth son of Captain John Isbester. They provide much of the source material for Jack Isbester’s historical biography of his grandfather.
The Isbester Archive has been accepted in principle by the Shetland Museum and Archive and is to be delivered to the Museum during the Summer of 2019.
CONTENTS
Foreword by Professor Tony Lane
2 GOING TO SEA – ARTHUR IRVINE
9 SUSIE ISBESTER’S SECOND VOYAGE
11 THE LOSS OF THE BARQUE CENTAUR BY FIRE
12 THE UNTIMELY END OF THE BARQUE ROSSDHU
16 FROM LIVERPOOL TOWARDS SYDNEY
19 THE FINAL VOYAGE TO MELBOURNE
24 THE BACKGROUND TO THE TRAGIC LOSS
Appendix 1 Cargo work for a typical Centaur voyage
Appendix 2 Working out the dead horse
Appendix 3 Crossing the Line ceremony
Appendix 4 Report of Dalgonar formal investigation
Appendix 5 Mr Mull’s log of the casualty
Figure 1.1 David Hobart, schoolmaster at Whiteness
Figure 1.2 Journey by boat and foot from Busta to Strom Bridge
Figure 3.1 Sixareen at Unst Boat Haven, Shetland
Figure 5.1 John Isbester as a young man