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...weeks out the favorable breeze freshened to a furious gale that threw the little bark high ashore on "an uninhabited and dangerous reef known as Wake Island." Before the storm pounded her to pieces, passengers and crew, thankful to be alive, recovered bit by bit stores and cargo-burying the latter deep in the coral sand. But their thankfulness turned to horror as the most intensive search produced no fresh water. Deciding to leave this dread, lonesome spot, they labored for three weeks to repair & supply longboat and gig salvaged from the wreck. Twenty...
...German sailing bark Libelle (Dragon Fly), laden with trade goods and gold, unwarped from Bremen for a year-long westbound voyage to the Orient. Of the 31 souls aboard, five were passengers, among them Charles Lascelles and Madam Anna Bishop, English concert singers of the day. By midwinter Captain Tobias was beating his way around Cape Horn. In January 1866 his anchor dropped in Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. The following months, refurbished and provisioned, the Libelle splashed out of Honolulu with the evening tide, sailed westward into the flaming Hawaiian sunset on the last...
Died. Flush, 7, cocker spaniel who played in The Barretts of Wimpole Street with Katharine Cornell for four years without ever, in 709 performances, missing his cue to give a squeaky, ingratiating bark; in Actress Cornell's home; at Sneden's Landing...
Slave Ship does not touch upon the sporting background of the bark that plays its title role, but records some of the more sombre legends which sailormen repeated about The Wanderer. She had been launched in blood, killing a workman who was pinioned on the ways as she slid down into the water. Fire and plague beset her voyages. Slaving, outlawed by international agreement in 1814, was practiced in the middle of the century by a few renegade skippers who risked hanging for the $600 to $1,000 per head they could obtain...
...Baxter) decided to quit slaving after the Sunday morning when, on his way to get drunk, he met Nancy (Elizabeth Allan) on her way to church. Failing to share his reformation, the Slave Ship crew shanghaied him and his bride, obtained the keys to the gun locker, pointed the bark's nose for the Congo. Thompson (Wallace Beery), the wily mate, planned to leave Captain Lovett on the beach after the cargo was aboard, but Lovett climbed aboard from a native proa. Annexing the arsenal, Lovett and Nancy, helped by the cabin boy (Mickey Rooney), held the wheel against...