
"Picked up at Sea" from John Conroy Hutcheson. British author of novels and short stories (1840-1897).

"Sail-ho on the weather-bow " "What do you make it?" "Looks like a ship's mast, with the yard attached, and a man a-holding on to it and hailing us for help-leastways, that's what it seems to me " "Jerusalem On the weather-bow, you say? Can we forereach him on this tack?" "I...

John Conroy Hutcheson (1840-1897) was a British author of novels and short stories about life aboard ships at sea. Hutcheson was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, in 1840, and died in Portsea Island, Hampshire, in late 1896 or early 1897. His works include: The Wreck of the Nancy...