Serin
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I don't know when they date from, but one phrase from the Admiralty sailing directions issued to my father when he was minesweeping in the Adriatic during the war has entered our common family vocabulary.I believe that William Dampier's (d 1715) sailing directions were still part of the admiralty instructions until the 1920s or more.
In extremis and if all else fails (as when the Bora comes sweeping in) the only wise course of action is: Run under bare poles for Manfredonia.