ISBN: 9781458910271

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Plus…

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908. Excerpt: ... THE CAPTAIN OF THE ULLSWATER There were enemies of Captain Amos Brown who said that he was a liar. He certainly had a vivid imagination, or a memory for a more romantic career than falls to the lot of most at sea or ashore. By the time we make Callao, Mr. Wardle, said the skipper to his new mate, as they lay in Prince''s Dock, Liverpool, I expect to be able to tell you something of my life, which has been a very remarkable one. You don''t say so, sir, said Mr. Wardle, who, as it happened, had heard nothing about the skipper, and was innocently prepared to swallow quite a deal. You don''t say so, sir. I do say so, replied the skipper. It has been a most remarkable career from first to last. Wonders happen to me, Mr. Wardle, so that when I am at sea I just know that something will occur that is strange. I have a collection of binoculars, with inscriptions on them for saving lives at sea that would surprise you. They have been given me by almost every Government of any importance under the sun. That must be very gratifyin'', sir, said the mate. It gets monotonous, said the skipper with a yawn. At times I wish foreign Governments had more imagination. They never seem to think two pair of glasses enough for any man. And the silver-mounted sextants I possess are difficult to stow away in my house. If you don''t mind the inscription to me on it, I''ll give you a sextant presented to me by France, Mr. Wardle, if I can remember to bring it with me from home next time. Mr. Wardle said he should be delighted to own it, and said, further, that the inscription would naturally give it an added interest. At this the skipper yawned again, and said that he was tired of inscriptions. The next lot I pick up I''ll request not to give my name, he said. My wife, ... Morley Roberts, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, The Blue Peter; Sea Yarns Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: L. C. Page & Company in 1908 in 267 pages; Subjects: Sea stories, English; Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Short Stories; Fiction / Sea Stories; Juvenile Fiction / Short Stories; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh;<

ISBN: 9781458910271

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill THE OVERCROWDED ICEBERG There was a deal of ice about, and it came streaming south, in all kinds of shapes, right into the track of ships. There were flat-topped bergs and ice-fields, and there were all kinds of pinnacled danger-traps which were obviously ready to turn turtle and load up any unwary steamer with more ice than she would ever require to make cocktails with. That year ice was reported in great quantities as far south as latitude 40, and there is every reason to believe that there was more ice run into than was ever reported by one unlucky liner and five tramps which were posted at Lloyd's as ' Missing.' The Western Ocean is no-peace-at- any-price body of water, and it tries those who sail it as high as any sea in the world, but when the Arctic turns itself loose and empties its refrigerator into the ocean fairway it becomeswhat seamen call ' a holy terror.' For ice brings fog, and fog is the real sea-devil, worse than any wind that blows. It was a remarkable thing in such circumstances that Captain Harry Sharpness Spink of Glo'ster preserved his equanimity. As Ward, the mate of the Swan of Avon, said, he wasn't likely to preserve the Swan. " Dry up, Ward," said his commanding officer, " be so good as to dry up. When I require your advice to run the Swan I'll let you know, but in the meantime any uncalled-for jaw on that or any other subject will make me very cross." " Do you think you can like me since you went to see that swab at the Foreign Office? " asked Ward, as he edgedtowards Spink. " Don't you savvy, Spink, that I'm just as able as I was before to pick you up and sling you off of this bridge on to the main-deck? " " That's as may be," said Spink, " and I don't deny by any means that you are a truculent and insubordinate beast. That's why. Books Literary Collections~~General The-Blue-Peter-Sea-Yarns~~Morley-Roberts General Books LLC This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: L. C. Page & Company in 1908 in 267 pages; Subjects: Sea stories, English; Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Short Stories; Fiction / Sea Stories; Juvenile Fiction / Short Stories; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh;<

ISBN: 9781458910271

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill THE OVERCROWDED ICEBERG There was a deal of ice about, and it came streaming south, in all kinds of shapes, right into the track of ships. There were flat-topped bergs and ice-fields, and there were all kinds of pinnacled danger-traps which were obviously ready to turn turtle and load up any unwary Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill THE OVERCROWDED ICEBERG There was a deal of ice about, and it came streaming south, in all kinds of shapes, right into the track of ships. There were flat-topped bergs and ice-fields, and there were all kinds of pinnacled danger-traps which were obviously ready to turn turtle and load up any unwary steamer with more ice than she would ever require to make cocktails with. That year ice was reported in great quantities as far south as latitude 40, and there is every reason to believe that there was more ice run into than was ever reported by one unlucky liner and five tramps which were posted at Lloyd's as ' Missing.' The Western Ocean is no-peace-at- any-price body of water, and it tries those who sail it as high as any sea in the world, but when the Arctic turns itself loose and empties its refrigerator into the ocean fairway it becomeswhat seamen call ' a holy terror.' For ice brings fog, and fog is the real sea-devil, worse than any wind that blows. It was a remarkable thing in such circumstances that Captain Harry Sharpness Spink of Glo'ster preserved his equanimity. As Ward, the mate of the Swan of Avon, said, he wasn't likely to preserve the Swan. " Dry up, Ward," said his commanding officer, " be so good as to dry up. When I require your advice to run the Swan I'll let you know, but in the meantime any uncalled-for jaw on that or any other subject will make me very cross." " Do you think you can like me since you went to see that swab at the Foreign Office? " asked Ward, as he edgedtowards Spink. " Don't you savvy, Spink, that I'm just as able as I was before to pick you up and sling you off of this bridge on to the main-deck? " " That's as may be," said Spink, " and I don't deny by any means that you are a truculent and insubordinate beast. That's why. Books, Literary Collections~~General, The-Blue-Peter-Sea-Yarns~~Morley-Roberts, 999999999, The Blue Peter; Sea Yarns, Morley Roberts, 145891027X, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<