Dartmouth

Um, but still, sort of eventually I joined.

When I turned 18, I went to, to Britain, um, and, uh, did the three-day interview, then joined the Britannia Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, did my training there, and then became what's called a seaman officer.

So basically, I think it would be the equivalent of a deck officer, um, in the US Navy.

Did gunnery, navigation, that type of thing, on a series of ships around the world.

Papin died about the year 1710, a disappointed man, about the same time as Newcomen.

Thomas Newcomen, ironmonger and blacksmith of Dartmouth, England, had first succeeded in getting his engine to work.

The hard fight to wrest from nature a manageable motive power and to harness fire for industrial use was continued by this clever blacksmith, and he succeeded when the more profound but less constructively skillful philosophers had failed.

The success of the steam method and the fight necessary to perfect it to the utmost absorbed the energy of most able engineers, Beighton, John Smeaton, accomplishing much in applying and perfecting it before the appearance of James Watt upon the scene.

Wow.

And then eventually it went to Dartmouth, and it was converted to be the floating... classroom for the Britannia Naval College in Dartmouth and then eventually they got a new vessel to use as a floating craft room and sold out of service and yeah ends up being a cafe here in Biddeford.

It's very big and very stable I think it does very well for a cafe.

Hannah, we're standing now on the banks of the river in a bit of shade because it's so brutally hot.

William Haslam, a, a vicar in Cornwall in the 19th century, was converted while he was in his own pulpit.

A young man visited John Flavel's chapel in Dartmouth in the 17th century, and when he was an old man, he remembered the sermon that he heard all those years ago.

And in America, after making his money, he was converted when-- while sitting on his front porch, thinking back to the sermon he heard as a young man in Dartmouth, Devon.

Adoniram Judson, uh, felt the call to be a missionary as he read a sermon that was preached and then written down.

And subsequently, he, he, he felt the call to be a missionary.