The Year's Dying, 2012 by Julia Jones
In memoriam HMS Bounty, Claudene Christian, Robin Walbridge, Dave Harris, Dick Cronin, Cassandra Jardine, Tom Carter, Richard Morris, Patricia Moran HMS Bounty, caught by Hurricane Sandy My family and the Mayan calender tell me that the world is going to end at this winter's solstice so perhaps it's time to say some farewells. The ship was HMS Bounty , built in Nova Scotia in 1960 for the film starring Marlon Brando. I wish I could describe the thrill it was in the summer of 2011 when I received a message from Doug Faunt, a deckhand on the Bounty , telling me that he was reading The Salt-Stained Book, volume one of the Strong Winds tri logy . I met Doug later when he took some time away from the Bounty and visited Peter Duck . He was one of the first people to convince me that it was worth publishing the Strong Winds trilogy in electronic format so the stories would pack easily into a sailor's kitbag. Thank you for that advice, Doug. Doug and I kept i...