"It could be a Middle Passage boat, it could be a refugee boat, it could be Noah's Ark," BMike said.
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In December 1792, there was a major accident on the Grand Canal. A passage boat left Dublin bound for Athy. It seems that one hundred and fifty people, many of them drunk, forced their way onto a barge, in spite of the captain warning them that the boat would capsize if they did not leave. Near the eighth lock, five men, four women and two children drowned when the boat capsized.
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Bolton Street was the preferred site, but high land prices and objections from local residents forced its relocation. The view south from Foster Aqueduct circa 1827 By 1807 a regular passage boat service was operating to Mullingar. In subsequent years the area was a hive of industry, with many hotels and inns and the trade boats using the wharfage and stores at the harbour. The canal was linked eventually with the River Shannon in 1817 after many financial difficulties and the majority of the main route still exists.
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Several workmen were killed in rockfalls. and it was considered an engineering wonder of its time. > The tunnel is so perfectly straight, that a person placed at one end, may > discern a small light entering at the other extremity [...] On the opening > of the tunnel, a small steam passage boat was employed for the conveyance of > passengers from Gravesend to Rochester, and vice versa; but as it was found > to injure the towing-path of the tunnel, as well as the banks of the canal, > it was discontinued. Foot passengers, however, still pass to and fro, though > some caution is necessary, to avoid coming into contact with the horse, or > horses, towing the barges.
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His second journey was made by sea. Embarking at Bristol in the ship Hercules, of London, 21 February 1586, he sailed through the Straits and first touched at the Goletta of Tunis; from there he sailed to Zante and to Patras in the Morea. There, he and his company were received with honour by the cadi of the town, as they had on board the Hercules twenty Turks, ‘redeemed by Sir Francis Drake in the West Indies, at which the cadi marvailed much at the Queenes Maiestie of England being a woman of such power and renown.’ From there he sailed to various islands in the Grecian Archipelago, and after a second visit to Cyprus he landed at Tripolis, in Syria, whence he took a small passage boat and finally reached Alexandria on 28 July.
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According to another account, Henry Long had challenged Charles Danvers, that he was pressing an unfair advantage and had his arm raised to kill. When Henry Danvers thrust himself between to ward off the blow, was wounded in the act, and striking upwards with his dagger killed Henry Long accidentally. Master Lawrence Grose, Sheriff, was informed on the murder, and on the evening of October 12th the following scene took place at Itchen's Ferry: "The said Grose, passing over Itchen’s Ferry with his wife that Saturday 12th, one Florio an Italian, and one Humphrey Drewell a servant of the Earl, being in the said passage boat threatened to cast Grose overboard, and said they would teach him to meddle with their fellows, with many other threatening words." John Florio had a close relationship with Henry Wriothesley at least until 1603, when Henry's family, Florio and other friends of the Southampton, flocked to him when he was released from the Tower.
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