Word: insley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twentysix, redheaded, pretty, weighing 90 lbs., she obviously could not ship before the mast. Besides, she wanted to sail as captain. She plucked $1,100 from the bank and headed for Baltimore. There the schooner Fannie Insley, dirty, spectral, gaunt, was tied to a city wharf. The Fannie Insley took her eye. She planked down $800 for her ("her bottom was sound"), spent the rest of her fortune fitting her out, by virtue of her ownership became Captain Grant, hired a couple of hands, cast off into the business of hauling freight up & down Chesapeake...
Captain Grant was held in harbor last week with a vengeance. The Fannie Insley, carrying a load of empty oyster shells across the bay to a fertilizer factory in Crisfield, Md., had sailed without her. Captain Grant did not mind sea smells, but she drew the line at the stink of empty oyster shells. A sudden bay squall caught the Fannie off dangerous Windmill Point, in the Rappahannock River. The foremast snapped, then the mainmast crashed over the side. The Fannie's seams opened, the sea poured in. Captain Wilbur Willey, the mate and the cook got a small...