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Excerpt: ... Many were the conjectures as to how the destroyed ship came to be in her present hapless condition. Jo thought that she had probably caught afire and the crew had been compelled to abandon her, but the engineer shook his head at this theory. "I don't agree with you, Joseph. My idea is Pg 134 that she is a derelict that has been abandoned possibly years ago. Some ship has crossed her trail recently, and to get rid of her as an uncharted menace to ships in regular travel, has set fire to her, but without completing her destruction." "They are bad things to be lying around loose," said Jim. "If we had been off our course a little, and it had been some hours later, we would have stood a jolly good chance of running plump into this ship, and if we had not gone down, we would have been badly stove up." "You would have gone down," said the engineer briefly. "I suppose there are a good many of these derelicts floating around the oceans," remarked Juarez. "Yes," said the engineer, "and some of them have most interesting histories. There was a curious incident in regard to a barque named the Norton that was abandoned in the Atlantic some years ago. The skipper and the crew were rescued by a sailing vessel, and, after a while, they drew near an English port. "The skipper of the Norton was pacing the poop deck from force of habit, when he suddenly stopped as if petrified, and his jaw dropped, for there ahead Pg 135 of him alongside of a wharf was his lost and abandoned ship. The explanation was simple. She had been picked up by a passing steamer and towed into port, for salvage." The Sea Eagle was now within a half mile of the derelict and she could be made out quite plainly. She was a good-sized wooden vessel, a three-sticker, but the masts had been broken off and the ship had been rendered entirely helpless. She was rolling sluggishly to the motion of the waves, ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781153649636
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 50
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1153649632
  • Publisher Date: 27 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 109 gr


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