Fatal North (2011)
“Bumping, crushing, and grinding noises were heard throughout the ship—ominous sounds to even the most experienced sailors.
Tyson had the watch on the evening of August 14—her second day under way. He was keeping Polaris on course down the middle of the channel. He hoped that by early morning she would be out of the narrow, icy channel and into less dangerous waters on her homeward trek.
At nine o’clock, Buddington came topside to take the helm. He had obviously been drinking. With the ship’s su...pply of liquor long gone, he had been rummaging about everywhere, including the personal belongings of the crew, looking for anything to drink. To Joe’s dismay, the captain had even gotten into the camphor-based medicine that Hannah rubbed on the Eskimo’s back to relieve muscular pain.
For an hour the ship reeled under Buddington’s erratic orders, turning this way and that—virtually every point on the compass. Exhausted at last, he went below, leaving the ship a hundred yards off a floe she had passed an hour earlier.MoreLess
Tyson had the watch on the evening of August 14—her second day under way. He was keeping Polaris on course down the middle of the channel. He hoped that by early morning she would be out of the narrow, icy channel and into less dangerous waters on her homeward trek.
At nine o’clock, Buddington came topside to take the helm. He had obviously been drinking. With the ship’s su...pply of liquor long gone, he had been rummaging about everywhere, including the personal belongings of the crew, looking for anything to drink. To Joe’s dismay, the captain had even gotten into the camphor-based medicine that Hannah rubbed on the Eskimo’s back to relieve muscular pain.
For an hour the ship reeled under Buddington’s erratic orders, turning this way and that—virtually every point on the compass. Exhausted at last, he went below, leaving the ship a hundred yards off a floe she had passed an hour earlier.MoreLess
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