He was a carpenter, but I knew the man, and he was nothing like Jesus, and for you to have made that analogy, the words must have stuck in your throat.

I always thought that these two songs were tied together. The "Captain of Her Heart: lyrics fit perfectly for Brandi to finally give up waiting for her sea captain. I guess you could read "Freya of the Seven Isles" if you really wanted to put yourself in a melancholy mood.

Brandi, You’re a Fine Girl

The Captain of Her Heart

CREW OF THE GOV SAFFORD.—
Story of the Wreck and the Rescue
of Capt Turpin and his Men Off
Bogue Inlet Bar.

Information was received in the city yesterday morning from Baltimore that the steamer Katahdin had arrived in that port with the crew of the ill-fated steamer Governor Safford aboard of her safe and well. This news was welcomed by every one, for the four mariners from Charleston who formed part of the crew of the Governor Safford were most popular here and for many days since their fate was doubtful, and relatives and friends were much worried.
The Governor Safford sailed from Georgetown on Thursday last with Capt Dick Turpin, of this city, in command, and Capt Fred Adair as mate, and in the engineer department Capt John Smith acted as chief, with his son, Frank Smith, as his assistant. The side-wheel steamer was conveyed by the lumber barge Katahdin, of the Atlantic Coast Lumber Company fleet of a million feet lumber carriers. The Governor Safford was to be towed to Cape Henry by the Katahdin, and then she was to proceed under her own steam to New York, where she had been sold. The Katahdin was bound for Baltimore, and after the rescue of the Safford’s crew she prceeded to her destination, from which place the following report was received from the correspondent of The News and Courier:
Baltimore, Md, July 28 — The steamer Katahdin, Capt Queen, with Capt C. M. Turpin and the crew of the sunken steamer Governor Safford on board, arrived here Sunday from Georgetown, S. C. The Safford went down Friday in rough weather, near Bogue Inlet bar.
Capt Turpin did not abandon the Safford until the water had covered the pumps. The crew rowed to the Katahdin, which was standing by. The Safford went down in seven fathoms of water about four miles from the bar. Her position is latitude 34, 37, longitude 77, 6; but she is not a menace to navigation.
The Governor Safford, which belongs to the Atlantic Coast Lumber Corporation, which also owns the Katahdin, was a side-wheel river steamboat. In tow of the Katahdin, but with her own steam up, she left Georgetown Thursday for New York. The Katahdin was to have had her in tow until Cape Henry was reached, and from there was to have proceeded to New York under her own steam.
About 5 o’clock on the afternoon she sailed the wind shifted to the eastward, the sea began to rise and the weather grew rough. Then the seams at the Safford’s guards started and she began to fill. The pumps were started, but the leaks were too big.
Capt Turpin cast off the tow line, and, conveyed by the Katahdin, ran under the Safford’s own steam.
At 7.30 o’clock the next day the water had risen in the hold to such a depth that the pumps were covered. The water was also on a level with the grate bars. Seeing that further fighting against the increasing leakage was futile, Capt Turpin decided to abandon the ship.
Besides Capt Turpin, the officers and crew of the steamer who were brought to Baltimore on the Katahdin were Mate Fred Adair, Chief Engineer John G. Smith, Assistant Engineer Peter Smith and John Francis, deck hand.
The Governor Safford was built in 1884 at Camden, N. J. and registered 307 tons gross. She was 129.6 feet long, 26 feet beam and 7.5 feet in depth. She had lately been rebuilt.

[ The News and Courier – July 29, 1908  — Charleston, SC ]

Steamer Gov. Safford "Heading to Pawley’s Island" SC
http://cdm15077.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p163901coll004/id/59/rec/2

http://cdm15077.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p163901coll004/id/590/rec/3

http://cdm15077.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p163901coll004/id/909/rec/7

http://cdm15077.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p163901coll004/id/546/rec/10
No side paddlewheel?

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/I?detr:1:./temp/~ammem_138f::displayType=1:m856sd=det:m856sf=4a26936:@@@det

John H. Dialogue Shipyard
Camden, NJ

USRC Colfax was built at the Dialogue Shipyard in 1871. I don’t recall the year, but the Colfax was lengthened and refurbished at Pusey, Jones & Co. in Wilmington, DE some years later. The Colfax was in the 1988 Marine Parade in Wilmington, NC. There is a good picture of the Colfax at the Pusey, Jones & Co. wharf.

The Governor Safford was built by Dialogue but apparently, her machinery was built by Pusey, Jones & Company. There is a good image of the Gov. Safford at the Pusey, Jones & Co. wharf.
http://www.dvrbs.com/People/CamdenPeople-JohnHDialogue.htm

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http://dspace.nelson.usf.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10806/135/Schnur_James_Springing_into_Action.pdf?sequence=1
…The arrival of the railroad in upper Pinellas led to the demise of Tarpon’s most
notable steamboats.
The larger Governor Safford departed for service as a ferryboat in New York and
South Carolina before sinking in 1908; …

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Georgetown, SC newspaper article reporting Gov. Safford sinking.
http://www.gcdigital.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/GTNP02/id/1501/rec/2

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Gov. Safford used for Sunday School trip up Hudson River past West Point
http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/agnes-e-kirkwood/church-and-sunday-school-work-in-yonkers-its-origin-and-progress-kri/page-36-church-and-sunday-school-work-in-yonkers-its-origin-and-progress-kri.shtml

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http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/george-m-from-old-catalog-barbour/florida-for-tourists-invalids-and-settlers-bra/page-22-florida-for-tourists-invalids-and-settlers-bra.shtml

Press communications announce, for the season 1884 ’85, as
follows:

"A steamboat line will start running this autumn from Cedar
Keys — that of the Gulf Steamship Company, caUing at the principal
shallow harbors along the coast between Cedar Keys and Tampa.
Their steamer, the Governor SafFord, a thirty-thousand-dollar boat,
now being built by the Pusey & Jones Company, of Wilmington,
Delaware, will have finst-class accommodation for passengers. She

308 FLORIDA.

will be one hundred and thirty-two feet from stem to stern and her
draught only three and a half feet.

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Hagley Museum Digital Images (Pusey, Jones & Co.)

Governor Safford image

http://digital.hagley.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p268001coll9/id/59/rec/12

Apparently, the machinery was what was built by Pusey & Jones, and the wooden superstructure in NJ.

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Foundered off Bogue Inlet, NC on July 24, 1908. Coming from Georgetown, SC to NY.

This was just a couple of miles from the family farm where I grew up near Swansboro, NC, but I never heard of the Governor Safford by name.

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http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/148797

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I think the South Carolina Maritime Museum in Georgetown, SC has a model of the Governor Safford, and images of it’s time in Winyah Bay.

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(GIGO)

Several years ago, probably about 1986, I was living at 204 Johnson Blvd. in Jacksonville, North Carolina. I had only been back in town for a little over a year, and was now working for the New River Baptist Association, overseeing their “crisis ministry,” called “The Hem of His Garment.” The operation involved running a thrift store, a food pantry, and performing client intake. The churches and community donated second-hand items, clothing, furniture, toys, and food items. Volunteers, and a few paid staff, sorted through the donated items, throwing out the worthless, tattered, moldy things, and organizing the rest and putting it out on display in the thrift store. The thrift store was located in the old part of town, just a block or so from the Salvation Army’s thrift store, and diagonally across the street from the old Jacksonville train depot.

Mary Bell Jarman was one of the paid staff at the Hem, and one day she came up to the front counter and handed me a paperback book. I don’t recall her exact words, but I knew from what she said that she thought the book might contain “questionable” content and she wasn’t sure she should put it out for the public to purchase. I took the book, looked at the cover and the back, and slipped it on a shelf beneath the counter. The book’s title was “The Red Dragon” and the author was Thomas Harris. I hadn’t heard of either at the time.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3a/Drag01big.jpg/220px-Drag01big.jpg

I’m not sure if I took the book home with me that day, but eventually, I began to read it. It was captivating, but as I read it, I realized at some point that I had seen a movie, probably just a few months prior to getting the book, that at least had the same plot, if not characters. The old “Iwo Jima” theater was, by that time, a $1 movie theater, and I had seen “Manhunter” there. Many years prior, I had also seen “Planet of the Apes” and “The Godfather” there, or at least that is the way I remembered it.

“Manhunter” was captivating, involving an FBI agent, Will Graham (a young, skinny, William Petersen of CSI-Las Vegas… probably why he got the latter part), and a serial “whole family + the pet” killer, that was operating in the Southeastern United States. Graham knew he was on a time schedule before the next family would be hideously killed and then posed for display. I don’t even remember Hannibal Lecter being a standout character in the story, but of course he was. Will had been attacked by Dr. Lecter, and almost killed, but had survived and triumphed. Dr. Lecter was in prison, and Will was recovering, more from the emotional injuries, rather than the physical ones inflicted by Lecter, with his young family (wife and son) in Florida (at least that is where I think the beach house was located). Because of the time constraints of the new case, Will returns to the FBI, and the dark haunts of his inner self, and bolds himself to confront Dr. Lecter again, asking for the Doctor’s insights into “the killer.” The Doctor’s insights that the killer was staging his victims so that they could see what he was “becoming” draws Will closer to the killer. And, the creative insight that Will finally has, regarding the families’ home movies, brings him to the burning doorstep of the serial killer. But, if you have a watch, or are watching the movie on television, you realize that the movie can’t be over, and surely there must be a plot twist. And, that does occur.

NOTE: “Manhunter” suffers from an honestly procured “Miami Vice” sound score. Perhaps by attrition, when there are none that remember the distinctive “Miami Vice” opening theme, then “Manhunter” will be a hit again.

So, now just a few years shy of thirty, I recorded the first two episodes of “Hannibal,” a new NBC TV series. And, there is Mads Mikkelson (a wonderful Bond nemesis – LeCheffreeeee “Casino Royale”), as Dr. Hannibal Lecter. I watched the second episode first (only because I didn’t realize it was the 2nd episode… which seems to be the SOP with me and Scandinavian cinema – I watched the “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” trilogy, in complete reverse order.). The second episode has a serial gardener who works as a drug dealer, “No,” that’s a pharmacist that preys upon diabetics, because they are easy targets for his sweet tooth. He subverts their medications, which puts them in a coma, and then plants them and transfuses them to grow his mushrooms, because as everyone knows, mushrooms are more empathetic than human beings. Well, they are more responsive than comatose diabetics when it comes to serial killers.

So, as I’m watching, I know all of this is a prequel to Lecter’s attack upon Will Graham. I also know that the red headed journalist, who doesn’t mind driving a Mack truck through a crime scene, and ignoring all etiquette & protocols, to get the story, is already high on Dr. Lecter’s “menu.” In fact, he has already told her she was “rude” and rude people don’t last long in Dr. Lecter’s world.

I do not know the actor that is playing Will Graham in the series, but his mannerisms remind me of those of Sherlock Holmes in “Elementary” and Kevin Bacon’s character in “The Following.”

NOTE: So, our society has descended quite far in just a brief period of time. If you ring up the gorey body count of the television shows that I like to watch, “Justified”, “The Following”, “Hannibal” then it has to be at least 20 victims a week (possibly more, but I’ve become numb, and lost count).