master mariner

"I could foresee a situation where you have a master mariner who's in charge of a vessel remotely or a number of vessels remotely. Obviously that needs legislation change and part of what we're building up here is the knowledge and safety case. We send probes and satellites to the other side of the Solar System, so this can be done."

A third statue, of Cranogwen, the master mariner and poet, will be unveiled in June next year.

His father, Thomas, was a master mariner who contracted tuberculosis and pleurisy and died when Peter was 7.

Capt Cross is among 14 recipients this year, including Master Mariner Ann Pletschke, from Hampshire, who has supported the rights of women and under-privileged individuals in the industry.

While the reputation of the “Master Mariner” has diminished in recent years with recognition of the terrible treatment of Indigenous Americans that Christopher Columbus’s voyage brought about, Shafer made the important point that the creation of Columbus Day in 1892 was also meant to mitigate the vicious prejudice against Italian Americans widespread at the time.