RT @AndrewJ_Staples: @adam_tooze It's the Royal Navy Hymn, Eternal Father, Strong to Save. "Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in p…

Plus there is the ritual reading of the shipping weather forecast … on the radio … dogger, forties, fair isles … you have no idea

Point taken. As a school kid in English schools in early 1970s I think I remember saying prayers “for those at sea”, or maybe it