Afloat at Last: A Sailor Boy's Log of His Life at Sea
- Author
- John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson and William Heysham [Illustrator] Overend
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Friendship · Adventure and adventurers · Voyages and travels · Seafaring life · Ship captains · Sailors · Hurricanes · Sargasso Sea
- Shelves
- Pirates, Buccaneers, Corsairs, etc. · Category: Adventure · Category: Novels
The opening, in English.
Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England
Afloat at Last
by John Conroy Hutcheson ________________________________________________________________ This short book tells the adventures over just one voyage to Shanghai of the hero, Allan Graham, whose father is a country vicar. Allan is obtained a place as an apprentice aboard the Silver Queen, which he joins at Wapping Docks. An Irish bosun, Tim Rooney, takes a liking to the lad and helps him learn the ropes. Hutcheson nearly always has an Irish co-hero in his books. We get a good description of how the vessel is warped out of the dock, how she makes her way down river, assisted by a steam-tug, and then down the English Channel and into the wide Atlantic Ocean. Allan begins to learn a bit about navigation and ship-handling, when the movement of the vessel in the Bay of Biscay causes him to retire with sea-sickness. A stowaway is found on b…
