'An orange glow lit up the horizon: an oil tanker had been torpedoed' – Dick Durham - Yachting Monthly

'An orange glow lit up the horizon: an oil tanker had been torpedoed' – Dick Durham - Yachting Monthly

Dick Durham looks into the life of his grandfather who came close to death on many occasions during a life spend on tall shipsInside an old jewellery box sits a yellowing fang set in a gold mount. It is the triangular molar wrenched from a shark jaw trolled for somewhere in the South Atlantic at the turn of the 19th century. Those fishing for the predator included my grandfather, Richard Stephens Durham, then a teenage apprentice aboard the thre…