Abel, over the course of a long career, after starting at sea as a chief engineer for the Royal Mail line, ultimately became pre-eminent in the ranks of maritime experts.
He became known throughout the maritime world as a great synthesiser, prized by lawyers and fellow experts alike as one who could put the complex and multitudinous findings of experts of many disciplines into one clear explanation, comprehensible and sensible to the layman and comprehensive and justifiable to the lawyers, judges, and his colleagues.
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