Captain Sharkey

“All aboard?” said the captain. “All aboard, sir!” said the mate. “Then stand by to let her go.” It was nine o’clock on a Wednesday… Read More »That Little Square Box

In the month of December in the year 1873, the British ship Dei Gratia steered into Gibraltar, having in tow the derelict brigantine Marie Celeste,… Read More »J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement

“Well,” said our Anglo-Jap as we all drew up our chairs round the smoking-room fire, “it’s an old tale out yonder, and may have spilt… Read More »Jelland’s Voyage

It was no easy matter to bring the Gamecock up to the island, for the river had swept down so much silt that the banks… Read More »The Fiend of the Cooperage

(BEING AN EXTRACT FROM THE SINGULAR JOURNAL OF JOHN M’ALISTER RAY, STUDENT OF MEDICINE.) September 11th.—Lat. 81° 40′ N.; long. 2° E. Still lying-to amid… Read More »The Captain of the “Polestar”

“What do you make of her, Allardyce?” I asked. My second mate was standing beside me upon the poop, with his short, thick legs astretch,… Read More »The Striped Chest

The place was the Eastbourne-Tunbridge road, not very far from the Cross in Hand—a lonely stretch, with a heath running upon either side. The time… Read More »A Pirate of the Land – One Crowded Hour

It was in the days when France’s power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway… Read More »The “Slapping Sal”

The Buccaneers were something higher than a mere band of marauders. They were a floating republic, with laws, usages, and discipline of their own. In… Read More »How Copley Banks Slew Captain Sharkey

Sharkey, the abominable Sharkey, was out again. After two years of the Coromandel coast, his black barque of death, the Happy Delivery, was prowling off… Read More »The Blighting Of Sharkey