The Two Shipmates

The stout trading brig _Amity_, Samuel Mudge master and part owner, was gliding up Plymouth Sound on a summer's evening towards her accustomed berth in Catwater, a few years bef...

When Dick Bracewell entered the tavern, he intended merely to take a glass of liquor, just to show his independence, and then to follow his friend. He, however, found a shipmate...

As soon as Ralph Michelmore was in the road, though he had offered no resistance, he was roughly thrust into the midst of the press-gang, who again closed round their prisoners....

Poor Jessie had wished at once to hasten on board the _Amity_, to obtain the assistance of Captain Mudge, and to get Ralph's protection, but her grandmother persuaded her to rem...

The _Falcon_ sailed down Channel with her convoy of merchantmen. She was to see them safe across the Atlantic to different ports in the West Indies, and then to proceed on her v...

It was night, and unusually dark for that latitude. A gentle breeze filled the frigate's canvas as she glided over the calm ocean with the wind on the larboard quarter. Ralph wa...

Daylight found the _Falcon's_ crew still hard at work, the prisoners on board the _Concorde_ being assisted by the English seamen taken out of the two merchant vessels. The latt...

Poor Jessie Flamank had good cause to be sad. For long she hoped against hope. Whenever the door opened her heart beat quick, and she looked up half ready to spring from her sea...

Kind Mrs Judson had gone to her own house. Jessie was seated at her work near the window for the sake of the light on an evening in the spring of the year, when she saw a man in...

The _Falcon_ proceeded on her voyage to India. Though she was refitted as thoroughly as was possible in a foreign port, her commander had no wish to encounter another enemy with...

Bells were ringing; bonfires blazing throughout England. The battle of Waterloo had been fought. Peace, broken by the return of Napoleon from Elba, was restored; and the great a...