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Legend of the lighthouse builder: how a British engineer in China helped connect East and West, while living life to the full


Legend of the lighthouse builder: how a British engineer in China helped connect East and West, while living life to the full
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Handout image shows an studio portrait of David Marr Henderson.
CREDIT: Felicity Somers Eve
Felicity Somers Eve was unaware of her great-grandfather s achievements until she found a cardboard box in a damp corner of the loft at her mother s house in 2009. And so from West Sussex, England, thanks to hundreds of objects, photographs, letters, technical drawings and other documents, she pieced together the work of David Marr Henderson and his colourful life, with much of his adulthood spent in China. ....

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19th century Hakodate and the doomed voyage of the Remi: Part 2


Posted : 2021-05-24 08:52
Updated : 2021-05-24 08:52
A sketch of a steamship sailing through a storm in the East Sea in the late 1880s. Courtesy of Brother Anthony s collection
By Robert Neff
Throughout the day of April 10, 1860, the two steamships, Remi and Japanese, sailed along the Japanese coast but as darkness began to fall, the ships went their separate ways. Over the next two weeks, the voyage was relatively uneventful. On April 24, the steamship (Remi) passed Tsushima and entered into the strait dividing the Korean peninsula from Japan.
Captain Laen was fairly unfamiliar with this area ― most of his sailing was done along the coast of China ― and was relying heavily upon his charts, but the charts were incomplete and often inaccurate. Earlier that year, an editorial in the North China Herald (an English-language newspaper published in Shanghai) criticized the British government s inefficient use of the navy to survey the coast of northeastern Rus ....

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