Going out in style: A mariner’s stories of burial at sea

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Author and mariner Norman Freeman shares his stories of burials at sea during the years he was a Marconi radio officer aboard ship in the Indian Ocean. Norman Freeman’s book The Lure of Far Away Places is sold by Dubray Books Ireland.

 

Image: ‘The Burial at Sea’ by Frank Brangwyn, 1890 (Glasgow Museums)