The Wreck of the Ethie by Hilary Hyland

Author:Hilary Hyland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
ISBN: 9781561456789
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: 2012-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

In the wheelhouse Captain Flannery focused his spyglass on the hazardous rocks and then swept it toward the open sea. The blizzard hadn’t let up. When he looked to the western horizon, he saw a bank of waves rushing toward them—towers of water as high as the hills of St. John’s. Swells piled on swells. As the Ethie wallowed in a trough, the wall of water rising next to her looked to be more than seventy-five feet high! A cold dread stabbed his chest.

Captain Flannery had survived blizzards and two hurricanes. But he had never witnessed a storm with such fury as this one.

The Ethie nosed up the waves and plunged back down as the tip of each wave broke over the ship. The captain was afraid the ship would pitchpole—flip end over end from the force of a breaking wave. The waves continued to gain power and hurl themselves against the shore. The sea boiled foam. Reeling from exhaustion, the bleary-eyed captain began an entry in the ship’s log: Daybreak, December 11, 1919. He let the pen slip from his half-frozen fingers, and his shoulders sagged with disbelief and despair.

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