Off Ascension Island

Nor gold nor pearls are half as handy as
such paper. Then a man knows what he has ...
(Goethe, Faust II)

Yesterday is a cancelled check.
Tomorrow is a promissory note.
But today is cash.
(Mary E. Withrow, Treasurer of the US)

With What Paid and Pays the World?

SICILY, 50 Lire (1893), Neptune of Palermo

my present ship

"UBC SYDNEY" - handysize bulk carrier in worldwide tramp shipping