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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Missing Merchantman, by Harry Collingwood This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Missing Merchantman Author: Harry Collingwood Illustrator: W.H. Overend Release Date: April 13, 2007 [EBook #21063] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MISSING MERCHANTMAN *** Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England The Missing Merchantman By Harry Collingwood ________________________________________________________________________ Harry Collingwood is a superlatively good writer of books about the sea because he was himself a working designer of ships, and a shipwright. This makes his style extremely authoritative. In this book the crew of a vessel, meaning in this case the deckhands, got it into their heads that the captain and officers of merchant vessels were paid far too much, and that ordinary deckhands ought to be paid on the same scale. In other hands they had been "robbed of fair wages" for hundreds of years. They quite forgot the education and skill that goes into the training of an officer, as well as the taking of responsibility. So they take the ship, making themselves essentially into pirates. The officers and passengers, being resourceful people, manage somehow to work their way out of this predicament, and eventually to bring their ship back home, where she had been posted as "Missing" for some considerable time. As always with this author the book makes an excellent audiobook. ________________________________________________________________________ THE MISSING MERCHANTMAN BY HARRY COLLINGWOOD CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTORY. This story opens on a glorious day about the middle of July; and Weymouth, with its charming bay, was looking its very best. A gentle southerly breeze was blowing; the air was clear--just warm enough to render a dip in the sea the quintessence of luxury--and so laden with ozone and the wholesome scent of the sea that to breathe it was like imbibing a draught of _elixir vitae_. The east land was in itself a picture as it stretched across the horizon in front of the town, its lofty chalk-cliffs and swelling downs, the latter dotted here
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