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mjklin on Sept 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northw...

If only Stan Rogers had lived to see it...

"Ah for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage / to find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea..."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage_(song)

johncalvinyoung on Sept 14, 2016 | [–]

My father's comment, upon reading the article:

"And if they had a barge lent by a friend, they could tie their cables fore and aft and gird her all around ... and hit the air and then take up the strain ... etc."

drdeadringer on Sept 18, 2016 | [–]

His brother Garnet has. Great singer too.

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