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RICHARD MAURY WROTE AND ILLUSTRATED "SAGA OF CIMBA", the story of his sailing

PHOTO OF RICHARD MAURY https://sites.google.com/site/cimbayacht/

FATE OF THE YACHT CIMBA https://sites.google.com/site/cimbayacht/

https://books.google.com/books?id=mILjDAAAQBAJ

Google

"Richard Maury (1910-1998) was born on St. David’s Island, Bermuda, in 1910, a descendant of Matthew Fontaine Maury, America’s famed pioneering oceanographer and hydrographer. At the age of eight he owned and sailed his first boat; but soon thereafter a childhood illness that was long to plague him ended for good his formal education. Even so, just as he taught himself to draw credibly enough to illustrate his own literary efforts, so too did he educate himself to the extent that reviewers have on occasion variously likened his prose to that of Richard Henry Dana, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, even to Conrad. When, at twenty-three, Maury sailed off in the Cimba, he was already something of a sea veteran, having served before the mast in the old full-rigged ship Tusitala (at sixteen and seventeen) as well as in several ocean tramps of that period. Nor was the sea ever to disenchant him: Maury continued to sail deep-water steamships, enjoying a long career as a professional master mariner. He died in 1998.

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RICHARD LAUNCELOT MAURY

"Born in Virginia, October 9, 1840, son of Commodore Matthew F. Maury and Anne Herndon, his wife. He enlisted as a private in the Virginia army, April 28, 1861; promoted lieutenant in Virginia State Troops, June, 1861; promoted major in the Confederate army and assigned to the Twenty-fourth Virginia Infantry; elected major at the reorganization of the regiment, May, 1862; badly wounded at the battle of Seven Pines, May 31, 1862; promoted lieutenant-colonel, May, 1863; badly wounded through the hips at the battle of Drewry's Bluff; promoted colonel, May 16, 1864; permanently disabled, but rejoined the army on the evacuation of Richmond and surrendered at Appomattox [on crutches] April 9, 1865; afterwards a prominent member of the Richmond bar.

Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume III VII--Prominent Persons

[He was in MEXICO with his father Matthew Fontaine Maury supervising building NEW VIRGINIA and CARLOTTA Colonies]

[became a millionaire from mine investments in SOUTH AMERICA while a lawyer. {USN Captain Maury Werth.)]

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ship: whaler "Maury" (Named in honor of James Maury (Consul to Liverpool, England; appointed by President Geo. Washington)