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Updated: May 27, 2025
She could sense that her rule in the crumbling and further leaning tower of Gabriele was faltering, floundering, and foundering. This, while she walked, was evident by her sporadic humming of Joni Mitchell's "Michael from Mountains."
The lights still played about the vessel, but her whole prow rose slowly out of the sea, while she settled heavily by the stern. The most unexpected thing in the world was happening. The Minnie B was foundering! In the ghastly light, her masts and rigging swung in a slow drunken reel. Presently she settled back to normal with a heavy crushing sound as the water in her hold rushed forward.
"Send the carpenter and his crew aft, with their axes," shouted the captain. Chissel and his mates quickly obeyed the summons, for he had seen from the first that his services would too probably be required. "Stand by, to cut away the masts," added Captain Poynder. It was a melancholy alternative, but the only one to save the ship from foundering.
Such a happening is usually fatal; it certainly deserves to be. Slicing, pulling, sclaffing, and the foundering of the innocent globe all these tragedies may at times be traced to this determination of the right hand not to be ignored but to have its part to play in the making of the drive. Therefore in all respects my right hand is a joint partner with the left.
"These crafts want care; and you are pilot, commander, and all; so mind and keep your weather eye open." "Ay, ay, sir. I knows the craft well enough, and I knows the roads, too; there'll be no end of foundering against the breakers to find where they lie." "No, no, Jack; you needn't do that; but mind your bearings. Jack, mind your bearings."
"The wind is hauling round to the westward; I expect the gale will abate before long." He was right, although to eyes less keen there was small comfort yet in the signs of the weather. It was an awful scene ships everywhere in distress: some on the point of foundering, others being dashed to pieces on the rocks.
Nor only so, but I saw that the saints, without the world, would make a very bad world of it; and that as ballast is wanted to a ship, so the common and rather low interests and the homely principles, rules, and ways of feeling, keep the church from foundering by the intensity of her own gusts. Some of the above thoughts took a still more definite shape, as follows.
All that follows, was written by John Steadiman, Chief Mate: On the twenty-sixth day after the foundering of the Golden Mary at sea, I, John Steadiman, was sitting in my place in the stern-sheets of the Surf-boat, with just sense enough left in me to steer that is to say, with my eyes strained, wide-awake, over the bows of the boat, and my brains fast asleep and dreaming when I was roused upon a sudden by our second mate, Mr.
If they had escaped foundering or being driven on a reef, they must have reached the shores of one of the neighbouring islands; he resolved therefore to go back to Santa Cruz, and then to steam round every island in succession, narrowly examining their shores. The ship accordingly stood back to Santa Cruz, though Jack scarcely expected to find the boats in the harbour.
We should act as we do in seafaring. "What can I do?" Choose the master, the crew, the day, the opportunity. Then comes a sudden storm. What matters it to me? my part has been fully done. The matter is in the hands of another the Master of the ship. The ship is foundering. What then have I to do?
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