One of the most beautiful women ever to grace the silver screen, Hedy Lamarr also designed a secret weapon against Nazi Germany. Founded in 1993, Trafigura is one of the largest physical commodities trading groups in the world. Trafigura sources, stores, transports and delivers a range of raw materials (including oil and refined products and metals and minerals) to clients around the world. The trading business is supported by industrial and financial assets, including 49.3 percent owned global oil products storage and distribution company Puma Energy; global terminals, warehousing and logistics operator Impala Terminals; Trafigura’s Mining Group; and Galena Asset Management. The Company is owned by around 700 of its 4,300 employees who work in 66 offices in 38 countries around the world. Trafigura has achieved substantial growth over recent years, growing revenue from USD12 billion in 2003 to USD180.7 billion in 2018. The Group has been connecting its customers to the global economy for more than two decades, growing prosperity by advancing trade. Visit: www.trafigura.com Anna and Industry: two store ships meant to part when the stores could be transferred to the squadron The narration can, at times, seem jumpy. The narrators voice will suddenly smooth out probably from a new recording session as he does a tremendous job providing voices to characters that fit right in with their personalities. His characterizations of Peter, Sean, Ransom. and the rest really bring the story to life. But his narration of ship to ship action could use more liveliness.

over and over again. Peter stood, contemplating the pink-cheeked singer and wondering first where FitzGerald was and secondly how this child could have got aboard; and presently the song came to an end. Jeremy Weir, Trafigura’s Executive Chairman and CEO, commented: “Today’s announcement represents a further progression in the development of Trafigura’s response to the challenges and opportunities the impending IMO 2020 regulation will present. We look forward to providing an essential service to our clients and working closely with Frontline and Golden Ocean to grow this venture into one of the world’s leading suppliers of marine fuels in the coming years.” Walter, Richard (1821). A Voyage round the World in the Years 1740, 1741, 1742, 1743, 1744 by George Anson (Newed.). London: F. C. & J. Rivington.The story is based on a real event, George Anson's voyage around the world that began in 1740. Places named in Ireland, England, Madeira, the Pacific coast of South America, Manila, Macau and Canton in China are real, including St. Catherine's Island off Brazil at 24 degrees South latitude, shown on this map. [7] Kenneth Dam, Trafigura’s Co-Head of Bunkering added: “Over the past 24 months, Trafigura has been growing its physical bunkering business worldwide. We believe that marine fuel market disruptions will be brought on by the implementation of IMO 2020 regulations and that the JV’s increased base volumes and greater access to both infrastructure and credit will provide increasingly competitive bunkering supply services to our customers. We are confident in our ability to supply quality products at competitive prices to the fleets controlled by the JV partners as well as to third party shipowners and operators.” Sean O'Mara: He comes along for the excitement and the glory, son of Peter's nurse. He runs very fast. He is accepted as Peter's servant and put in the crew, where he advances for his good work. In this journey across the seas with Commodore George Anson they will encounter mant dangerous situations, weather-wise, disease, and the exploration of unchartered waters. The Golden Ocean” (1956) by O’Brian is his first historical sea-going novel, and it shows. There is a lot of promise in the material but the presentation is a bit uneven, with odd shifts in narration and leaps through time. At times though, we can see the first stirrings of the later O’Brian, he of the 21-volume ‘Aubrey and Maturin’ series that I devoured inside 2 months late last year and thoroughly enjoyed for the most part.

In typical O'Brian fashion, he tells the story with panache and accuracy. Every fo'c'sle and top'sl is recounted and the horrors and joys of the trips are covered. The Sargasso Sea is named for the Sargassum seaweed that creates its unique ecosystem. This Sea has been called a golden floating rainforest. While not his best novel, the Golden Ocean is still a very fine story of a young boy growing into a man aboard a Man o' War and the people who he becomes brothers with along the long hard journey.Centurion, Gloucester, Wager, Tryal and the pink Anna think they are west enough to turn north. Hopelessness pervades. Commodore Anson appears to be made of "iron and oak", a little more affable the worse the weather gets. Sean is captain of the foretop, as he performs well, being sure-footed and brave with frozen sails and ropes. Centurion reaches Juan Fernandez, staying there a few months to fix ships and heal the men with good food there. Peter spends a second birthday as a midshipman, having learned the tone of authority and grown out of his best clothes. Peter computes the losses of crew on Centurion, Gloucester and Tryal since leaving England: 961 sailed out, 626 dead after reaching Juan Fernandez. Tryal takes a prize, a Spanish merchant ship, which vessel replaces the damaged Tryal. Spanish passengers are well-treated, a wise move. Wager never makes this rendezvous. Reduced squadron sails north, reaching Paita. Centurion and Tryal crews take the town, made easier by the fear of the locals, who flee on seeing them. An Irishman living there tells Peter where the huge merchant treasure is. They take the ship with the merchant treasure, truly great wealth. All the crew become experts on the rules of sharing prizes, happy with the share they will see. They keep sailing north, aiming for the Acapulco Galleon, which sails between Manila and Acapulco with treasure. Missing the galleon, the Commodore sails west to Manila. Storm damaged Gloucester is burned at sea, and her crew taken aboard Centurion, the only ship of the squadron now. The book contains a wealth of period detail, and includes historical figures, like Anson, the midshipman Keppel, Mr Walter, the chaplain to Anson and kind guide and keeper of the purse for Peter Palafox, and captains of other vessels in the squadron. Also, Sean thinks the earth is shaped like a cheese and Mr Saumarez wishes to press the devil into the service. I love this book. Mr Saumarez: He is a lieutenant aboard HMS Centurion, who holds Mr Saunders place when he is sent to be captain on HMS Tryal. He is based on a real person in the Royal Navy. [7] Mr Walter the chaplain wrote his own account of the voyage of Anson, noted by Clark (above) as one of O'Brian's historical sources for this novel and the interactions among the officers and crew. [8] [9] An original copy was at auction in 2009. [10]

Norwegian novelist Jacobsen folds a quietly powerful coming-of-age story into a rendition of daily life on one of Norway’s rural islands a hundred years ago in a novel that was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize.However this can be very enjoyable for some, especially if you're already hooked on the Aubrey/Maturin series or if you like to read Age of Sail seafaring stories. You get all the lovely period (circa mid 18th century) detail one becomes accustomed to when reading O'Brian. You also get an idea of what the British navy was like prior to arguably its most notable period in history, the Napoleonic Wars. The trip was terrible, despite the loot at the end. In the small fleet, something like 1900 men set out from England; about 500 returned. But that was not uncommon in those days, which disease, starvation, and enemy guns all taking their toll. O'Brian is rather unromantic about it all, but then again, so was life at sea. The prose is not as mature as his Aubrey-Maturin series, but the seeds are clearly there, and beginning to grow. And yes, the nautical terminology is as glorious as ever. There is emerging recognition of the crucial role it plays in the wider ecosystem ranging from the Atlantic to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. The Sargasso Sea is the earth’s only sea without a land boundary.

Publishers Weekly, writing in 1994, says this first sea novel by O'Brian "can stand on its own as an entertaining and psychologically astute narrative". They see in this 1956 novel "practically all the naval lore and sense of place that grace the Aubrey/Maturin books". Specifically, "Shipboard life rings true, the story never flags and humor abounds: "Well, he is a wonderful poacher for a Protestant," observes one Anglo-Irishman. [3] Mr Keppel: He is already 5 years at sea, a midshipman since age 10, who appears so very young to Peter, and a character from history who rose high in the navy and in society.This novel was aimed at younger readers, as well as adults, and takes the viewpoint of a new midshipman joining the Royal Navy on HMS Centurion in 1740 on this voyage. The boy is on the one ship that makes the entire voyage, and he is one of the survivors. Seen by the midshipman Peter Palafox, the sense of the adventure is depicted, as he sees the world and learns the discipline, hardships and rewards of the Royal Navy. The hardships of the voyage are not dismissed, with counts of the deaths from scurvy, whose cure was not yet understood, and the problems of navigation without the precise knowledge of location gained by chronometers to measure longitude, depicted in detail.