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Updated: June 17, 2025
The great, virtuous calm engulfed her, slate sides, yellow funnel, and all, but cast up in another hemisphere the steam whaler Haliotis, black and rusty, with a manure-coloured funnel, a litter of dingy white boats, and an enormous stove, or furnace, for boiling blubber on her forward well-deck.
"Is it going to get any worse?" said the bow-anchor chained down to the deck, where he could only breathe once in five minutes. "'Not knowing, can't say. Wind may blow a bit by midnight. Thanks awfully. Good-bye." The wave that spoke so politely had travelled some distance aft, and found itself all mixed up on the deck amidships, which was a well-deck sunk between high bulwarks.
Last time Cecilia had crossed, it had been with Aunt Margaret on a big turbine mail boat; they had reached Calais just as an excursion steamer from Margate came up, gay with flags and light dresses, with a band playing ragtime on the well-deck, and people dancing to a concertina at the stern.
"I reckon that we will be on the rocks in about twenty minutes to half an hour unless you can get her going." The chief engineer muttered something which was not audible above the roar of the wind through the rigging and the wash of the green seas that leapt over the bulwarks of the well-deck. "What?" yelled the captain, leaning over the balustrade.
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