A SAILOR’S CLUB.
Not very far from the London Docks, and within a stone’s throw of that refined…
A NIGHTMARE OF THE DOLDRUMS.
The Justitia was a smart little barque of 395 tons. I had viewed her with…
A MEMORY OF THE PACIFIC.
It was in December, 1858, that the ship Walter Hood shifted her berth to the…
A LOG EXTRACT.
The following entry was made in the official log-book of a ship named the Oxford:—“Fifth…
A FOURPENNY VOYAGE.
Dr. Johnson once said that the full tide of human life was to be seen…
A DRUNKEN SHIP
In one of Edgar Poe’s stories there is an account of a crew clinging to…
A DANCE AT SEA.
A large Australian passenger ship, homeward bound from Sydney, New South Wales, lay becalmed in…
A CHAT WITH A FISHERMAN.
A few days after the dreadful gale that had wrecked whole fleets of smacks belonging…
A CHANNEL INCIDENT.
The captains of the steamers which ply as passenger and cargo vessels between London and…