Coast

Salty tales

he turnstiles clank and the crowd surges forward along the pier, tickets in hand. At the gangway a wizened, uniformed seaman checks that the passengers have the correct tickets before they clamber up the gangplank. Once aboard, acrid smoke from the funnel stings their eyes as it’s driven across the deck by a

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