Clipper Ships and the Golden Age of Sail by Sam Jefferson

Author:Sam Jefferson
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781472900296
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-11-20T16:00:00+00:00

Repairs to the rudder were undertaken in Horta, Faial.

The Dreadnought was working her way across a stretch of the Atlantic nicknamed the ‘devil’s blow hole’ when she was battered by winds far stronger than any Samuels had experienced previously. He had been almost a decade in charge of the Dreadnought and never once felt the need to heave her to, but now he knew he must. As skipper and crew waited for the right moment to brace up her mighty mainyard, the old clipper shipped a huge sea that hurled her captain forward and left him senseless under a pile of spare spars. One leg was broken and also a wrist, his head was badly gashed and he was half drowned. During a lull in the storm, the crew succeeded in extricating him from the pile of spars and took him below.

Samuel’s main problem now was that the only person even vaguely resembling a doctor aboard the ship was him. Most vessels relied on the captain and a trusty copy of the ship’s medical journal to come up with a solution to any problem. Thus Samuels set about setting his own leg with the help of the steward and two crew.

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