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paints, lamp wick, and seal blood. [ ] the craft was strengthened by having the mast of the dudley docker lashed inside, along the length of her keel. she was then fitted as a ketch , with her own mainmast and a mizzenmast made by cutting down the mainmast from the stancomb-wills, rigged to carry lug sails
they had left the immediate ice behind, but the sea swell was rising. at dawn the next day, they were nautical miles ( km; mi) from elephant island, sailing in heavy seas and force winds. [ ] shackleton established an on-board routine: two three-man watches, with one man at the helm, another at the sails...
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