
Life aboard a lightship is monotonous and wearisome[1]. Every effort is made to occupy and divert the minds of those onboard[1]. Their daily duties are clearly defined and have to be scrupulously carried out[1]; books in plenty are always onboard[1].
The depressing influence of the vessel being stationary, of her never going on, but remaining moored to one spot, a plaything for the waves, with the same endless, monotonous waste of waters everywhere around is challenging[1]. ''There is little poetry in the sea from their point of view''[1].
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