The Captured Cunarder: An Episode of the Atlantic
The Captured Cunarder: An Episode of the Atlantic
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Two weeks later the Rosario left the Mersey on a midnight tide, and 36 THE CAPTURED CUNARDER.
in addition to an unusually large crew she carried many passengers, some of whom had come on board without tickets at the moment her hawsers were slipped in the Sandon dock. This was on a Wednesday, and the Grampania was scheduled to sail the following Saturday.
37 Ill As usual, the Grampania called for the mails at Queenstown on Sunday, and at about two in the afternoon she slipped by Roche's Point an...d turned ahead full speed for New York. Full speed with her implied a velocity unprecedented on the sea. Her twin screws made the water in her wake boil like the rapids of Niagara, and with each throb of her tremendous engines she reached ahead like a large pro- jectile from a mortar ; other ships were fast, but they seemed at anchor as she overhauled them and lost them astern. As she flew along the coast the passengers, who 38 THE CAPTURED CUNARDER.
knew the headlands with the gray old towers and the spaces of yellow green flax, thought these capes had come closer together than they were before, so much did she lessen the time between them.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Two weeks later the Rosario left the Mersey on a midnight tide, and 36 THE CAPTURED CUNARDER.
in addition to an unusually large crew she carried many passengers, some of whom had come on board without tickets at the moment her hawsers were slipped in the Sandon dock. This was on a Wednesday, and the Grampania was scheduled to sail the following Saturday.
37 Ill As usual, the Grampania called for the mails at Queenstown on Sunday, and at about two in the afternoon she slipped by Roche's Point an...d turned ahead full speed for New York. Full speed with her implied a velocity unprecedented on the sea. Her twin screws made the water in her wake boil like the rapids of Niagara, and with each throb of her tremendous engines she reached ahead like a large pro- jectile from a mortar ; other ships were fast, but they seemed at anchor as she overhauled them and lost them astern. As she flew along the coast the passengers, who 38 THE CAPTURED CUNARDER.
knew the headlands with the gray old towers and the spaces of yellow green flax, thought these capes had come closer together than they were before, so much did she lessen the time between them.
What to read after The Captured Cunarder: An Episode of the Atlantic?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by William Henry Rideing to read onlineMoreLess
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