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MILESTONE REACHED

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Today someone from New Zealand was our 50,000th. visitor - a milestone reached.  This is a country NAUTICAL LOG lived in for two years, from 1959 to 1961, on contract with the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand.

Since we do not Twitter®, Facebook®, RSS® or any other alternative method all our visitors have found us via the Internet.  Thanks for visiting enjoy the Posts feel free to comment and remember our fellow seafarers.

Good Watch.

There are 400 seafarers still held captive by pirates both ashore and off the coast of Somalia.  Conditions are degrading for them as fellow human beings and seafarers.  For those ashore it is particularly worrying as now we have seen how Libyans behave towards their captives on both sides of their civil war.  NAUTICAL LOG will continue to comment after each Post until everyone is home with their families.  Please join us in drawing attention to this deplorable state of affairs which the Maritime Authorities seem to be doing little or nothing about.

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