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...In 1992, Bruce Bernard, who had known Freud since his schooldays, and then from the Soho scene, agreed to sit for his portrait....
...He was a former merchant seaman-craftsman working the east Asian routes: a Joseph Conrad man. His union was a Protestant bulwark of empire, sadly rotting....
...At around midday, Abjojie Dugenia, a Filipino seaman aboard the MV Polaris, a Marshall Islands-flagged commercial vessel en route to the UK, received a radio call from the watch tower....
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