That Little Square Box
"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 morning. The good ship Spartan…
J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement
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, which had been picked up…
Jelland’s Voyage
"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 over into print for all…
The Fiend of the Cooperage
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 extended for many miles out…
The Captain of the “Polestar”
(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 enormous ice fields. The one…
The Striped Chest
"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, for the gale had left…
A Pirate of the Land – One Crowded Hour
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 was half-past eleven upon a…
The “Slapping Sal”
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 than were to be found…
How Copley Banks Slew Captain Sharkey
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 their endless and remorseless quarrel…
The Blighting Of 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 the Spanish Main, while trader…