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Turned Adrift is a sea story written by Harry Collingwood ,who served in the navy and later as an engineer. He traveled extensively finding copious for his wonderful adventure stories.

Excerpts:

The Zenobia—A1 at Lloyd’s—was a beautiful little clipper barque of 376 tons register, and so exquisitely fine were her lines that her cargo-carrying capacity amounted to but a few tons more than her register tonnage; in fact, the naval architect who designed her had been instructed to ignore altogether the question of cargo capacity, and to give his whole attention to the matter of speed, and most faithfully had he carried out his instructions.