John Conroy Hutcheson

Name: The Ghost Ship — Chapter Five.
Author: John Conroy Hutcheson

The Ghost Ship — Chapter Five. (1901)

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“The Ghost Ship — Chapter Five.”, published in 1901, is a work by John Conroy Hutcheson. It explores elements such as skipper, Cap'en Applegarth and Stokes.

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John Conroy Hutcheson, The Ghost Ship — Chapter Five. (1901)

“ The surface fog, or mist, which had lately obscured the view, rising from the water immediately after the last gleams of the sunset had disappeared from the western sky, had now cleared away, giving place to the pale spectral light of night, an occasional star twinkling here and there in the dark vault overhead, like a sign-post in the immensity of space, making the wild billowy waste, through which we tore with all the power of wind and steam, seem all the wilder from contrast. ”

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John Conroy Hutcheson, The Ghost Ship — Chapter Five. (1901)

“ With that the poor old chap, who was quite overcome with the exertions he had gone through and his pent-up emotion, broke down utterly, bursting into a regular boohoo.
“Dear me, Mr Stokes; Mr Stokes, don’t give way like that,” said the skipper soothingly, patting him on the back to calm him down, being a very good-hearted man at bottom, in spite of his strict discipline and insistence on being “captain of his own ship,” as he termed it. “Don’t give way like that, old friend! Things will come all right by-and-bye.” ”

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John Conroy Hutcheson, The Ghost Ship — Chapter Five. (1901)

“ The men sprang to the ropes with a will, but ere they had begun to cast them off from the cleats an ominous sound was heard from aloft, and, splitting from clew to earring, our poor topgallantsail blew clean out of the boltropes with a loud crack as if a gun had been fired off, the fragments floating away ahead of us, borne on the wings of the wind like a huge kite, until it disappeared in the dark chiaraoscura of the distant horizon, where heaven and sea met amid the shadows of night. ”

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John Conroy Hutcheson, The Ghost Ship — Chapter Five. (1901)

“ This exasperated Mr Stokes, making the old fellow quite furious.
“This is no laughing matter, Cap’en Applegarth,” said he with great dignity, standing up as erectly as he could and puffing his corpulent figure out to such an extent that I thought he would burst. “I’ll have ye to know that, sir. Nor did I come on deck, sir, at the peril of my life almost, to be made a jeer block of, though I’m only the chief engineer of the ship and you’re the ca’p’en.” ”

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John Conroy Hutcheson, The Ghost Ship — Chapter Five. (1901)

“ Presently a cloud of thick black smoke again pouring forth from the funnels showed that Mr Stokes had set the engine-room staff vigorously to work to carry out the skipper’s orders; while the vibration of the upper deck below our feet afforded proof, were such needed, that the machinery was being driven to its utmost capacity, the regular throbbing motion caused by the revolving shaft being distinctly perceptible above the rolling of the vessel and the jar of the opposing waves against her bow plates when she pitched more deeply than usual and met the sea full butt-end on. ”

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John Conroy Hutcheson, The Ghost Ship — Chapter Five. (1901)

“ Can you spare him a man or two to help clear the suctions? I daresay there’s a lot of stray dunnage washing about under the stoke-hold plates. You might go down and bear a hand yourself, as I won’t leave the bridge.”
“Certainly, sir; I’ll go at once with Mr Stokes and take some of the starboard watch with me. It’s close on seven bells and they’d soon have to turn out, anyway, to relieve the men now on deck.”
“That’ll do very well, Fosset,” said the skipper, and, raising his voice, he shouted over the rail forwards—
“Bosun, call the watch!” ”

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John Conroy Hutcheson, The Ghost Ship — Chapter Five. (1901)

“ Bill Masters, who had been waiting handy on the deck amidships, immediately below the bridge, expecting some such order with the need, as he thought, of the skipper reducing sail, at once stuck his shrill boatswain’s pipe to his lips and gave the customary call: Whee-ee-oo-oo—whee-ee-ee.
“Starboard watch, ahoy!”
The men came tumbling out of the fo’c’s’le at the sound of the whistle and the old seadog’s stentorian hail; whereupon the first mate, selecting six of the lot to accompany him, he followed Mr Stokes towards the engine-room hatchway. ”

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John Conroy Hutcheson, The Ghost Ship — Chapter Five. (1901)

“ We had hauled the trysails and other fore and aft canvas, which was comparatively useless to a steamer when running before the wind at the time we had altered course towards the south, in quest of the ship in distress, the Star of the North speeding along with only her fore-topsail and fore-topgallantsail set in addition to her fore-topmast staysail and mizzen staysail and jib. ”

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