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Updated: June 15, 2025
A seaman rushed through the saloons, throwing wide the cabin doors, and shouting the captain's order. Up above, men were ripping the canvas covers off the life-boats, flinging oilskins and rugs and provisions into them, slewing round the davits, hauling on the fall-ropes a furious medley of energies.
The boats flew back; their crews clustered aboard; they were swung up at the davits and the fall-ropes made fast. Hammocks were brought up and stowed, bulkheads sent down, ports and magazines opened, the fires put out in the galley, and the drums beat to quarters.
The boatswain had unshackled the fall-ropes aft, and the boat slewed off with the jerk of a heavy wave. "Clear away there forward, blast you!" Two seamen were tugging at the fall-block. Something had fouled. The "Starlight" was rearing head stern up; her shattered bows were already under the waves; her life was now a matter of seconds only. "Cut the ropes, you blasted idiots!"
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