This is our evening for callers. Cousin Basil is out, but he'll be back pretty soon, and he left word for you to wait if you got here before he did." That message was for the boss, and I lagged behind in the dimly lighted hall while she ...
Then, upon that pirates' shore crashed the ship The Isle of Skye. And the youngest of its crew members, 14-year-old John Spencer, survived the wreck. But would he escape the wreckers? This is his harrowing tale.
A Story of Killing Seas and Plundered Shipwrecks, from the 18th Century to the Present Day Bella Bathurst ... The French were such expert wreckers that they had been responsible for drafting the first international law against it back ...
the brig came free, and the wreckers piloted her to Key West. In his response to the wrecker's libel, the brig's master claimed he could have gotten his ship off himself and accused the wreckers of delaying the process by taking the ...
on the beach. Then they carried all the stuff up the beach and into a cave. We crept after them into the cave, they lit torches and we followed them as they made their way along the tunnels deep into the cliffs.
When Uncle Jack begins to act suspiciously, young Jack and his friends suspect that he has become a "wrecker"--Someone who causes shipwrecks in order to loot the wreckage.
Salvaging these wrecks was a highly competitive and hazardous gamble of the lives, limbs, and vessels of the wreckers against an often elusive gain.