The Irish Bride
“came an order shouted from the first mate, Mr. Quisenberry.
He stood on the quarterdeck, barking commands over the frightened murmuring of other passengers. “Haul up the mainsail! Brace aback the after yards!”
All the nautical talk sounded like a foreign language to Farrell, but replies of aye-aye were followed by the slap of feet running across the deck and ship’s hands scrambling up the rigging.
With some adjustment of the sails, the ship began to slow her headway. Two crewmen clambered into ...a boat and were lowered to the ocean to pull the hapless victim aboard.
Lantern light from the little rescue craft bobbed on the waves like a fairy’s magical glow over the peat bogs back home. A crewman held the lamp at arm’s length as they searched the swells.
The men in the boat circled the ship several times and backtracked over its wake while passengers watched anxiously from the rail. Farrell never took her eyes off the little light. But after a half-hour, Mr. Quisenberry called the boat back in.MoreLess
He stood on the quarterdeck, barking commands over the frightened murmuring of other passengers. “Haul up the mainsail! Brace aback the after yards!”
All the nautical talk sounded like a foreign language to Farrell, but replies of aye-aye were followed by the slap of feet running across the deck and ship’s hands scrambling up the rigging.
With some adjustment of the sails, the ship began to slow her headway. Two crewmen clambered into ...a boat and were lowered to the ocean to pull the hapless victim aboard.
Lantern light from the little rescue craft bobbed on the waves like a fairy’s magical glow over the peat bogs back home. A crewman held the lamp at arm’s length as they searched the swells.
The men in the boat circled the ship several times and backtracked over its wake while passengers watched anxiously from the rail. Farrell never took her eyes off the little light. But after a half-hour, Mr. Quisenberry called the boat back in.MoreLess
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