Quills and conflict: How protection in the Strait of Hormuz is bought and sold
- Posted on July 10, 2026
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Quills and conflict: How protection in the Strait of Hormuz is bought and sold
Inside a futuristic building in central London, leather-bound tomes contain quill-and-ink records of vessels lost at sea over the past 250 years. An entry in one of hundreds of such “Loss Books” details the demise of the Titanic in April 1912. More than 100 years later, entries are still handwritten using a quill pen by staff known as “waiters.”
